Species: Orb-web Spider - unnamed 1 ( Araniella sp.)
Family: Orb-web Spiders (ARANEIDAE)
Category: Arachnids
Location: Widespread
A. Arachnids
More extensive information on arachnids can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Orb-web Spiders (ARANEIDAE)
These are three-clawed builders of flat webs with sticky spiral capture silk. The building of a web is begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the centre, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of non-sticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk.
C. Orb-web Spider - unnamed 1 ( Araniella sp.)
This tiny spider, perhaps no longer or wider than 2 millimetres (with legs bunched up) appeared as a lime green pin-point on one of the Cemetery's headstones. This colouring - an orange head with a yellowish-green abdomen with black dots on the upper surface - mark this out as one of Britain's five or so Araniella Orb-web Spiders. Establishing which of these five this individual might be, requires more than just a good photograph - and these are certainly not that. It requires examination at high magnification in good lighting, typically of the genitalia.
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Orb-web Spider - unnamed 1
Establishing which of these five this individual might be, requires more than just a good photograph - and these are certainly not that. It requires examination at high magnification in good lighting, typically of the genitalia.
Orb-web Spider - unnamed 1
The orange and lime-yellow colouring of this very small spider mark this out as one of Britain's five or so Araniella Orb-web Spiders.
