Garden Spider - Araneus diadematus - a photo on Flickriver

Seeing quite a few of these clumps of tiny spiderlings this year and more often than not they are in quite inaccessible location, which if disturbed ends with a small explosion of tiny spiders, though they do tend to re-group in a few hours. Female garden spiders lay several hundred eggs in the autumn which are wrapped in silk which hatch the following spring.

This one was in fact two small clumps that over a few days merged into one single large clump over two inches across.

They had chosen to attach themselves to the cover of our hardly ever used barbeque on the patio. So this was the perfect opportunity to get a frame filling shot though the angle to position the camera was a bit of a challenge, mainly due to getting the lens parallel with the surface of the clump, after quite a few attempts I was very happy with this shot and managed not to disturb the clump in the process.

Best viewed very large (or not if to have a fear of hundreds of spiders).

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Taken on: May 19, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS 5DS R, f/11.0, 1.6 sec, 100mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5DS R
Lens:	100.0 mm
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	1.6
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.1 (Macintosh)
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