Giant House Spiders
Known in the UK as the giant house spider, it is also known as Tegenaria duellica or Tegenaria Gigantea. It is very closely …
Common Orb Weaver Spiders
The yellow orb spider is a common web weaver found across Europe and beyond. It’s Latin name is Metellina Segmentata and it …
Cellar Spiders
The cellar spider or Pholcus phalangioides is a common spider found across most of the world including Europe, Africa, Asia and the …
Little and Large Spider Courtship
A male garden spider carefully approaches a much larger female sitting in her web. Some female spiders can eat the male during …
Garden spiders
The common UK Garden Spider, also known as the Cross Spider because of the distinctive marks on its back. Garden spiders are …
Wolf Spiders
Wolf spiders are members of the family of spiders called Lycosidae in latin, meaning wolf. This name is attributed to them because …
Spider and Petunias
Some pics of a garden spider hanging out with some purple petunias.
Spider Trapping and Wrapping a Fly
I shot these images of a garden spider trapping a fly in its web and taking it back to its lair. I …
Frozen Spider
This spider is actually dead – I found it in an allotment shed, stretching its hairy legs out, frozen in its final …
Leopard Spider
Found in the back garden, unsure of the species but has a beautiful animal skin leopard-type pattern on its abdomen.
