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Garden Spiders
It's been estimated that there could be as many as 2,250.000 spiders in an acre of rough grassland in autumn. I don't know how accurate that is, but hedgerows are certainly full of their intricate webs at the moment. A great time to see them is in the early morning when they hang heavy with those sparkling dewdrops. Many of these webs are the work of Garden Spiders (see photos above). I'm told the RSPCA receive lots of calls about these spiders each year from people who are worried they've found something dangerous. It's easy to see why. They're quite exotic looking creatures. They're also sometimes called the Cross Spider on account of that white cross-shaped marking on their bulbous abdomens. If photos of garden spiders were legal tender I'd be a rich man now because I'm currently receiving about a million of them every day. Please no more - the account is full and the tax man is beginning to ask questions. People are often confused as to why they suddenly have lots of large spiders in their garden in autumn. It's sometimes thought the spiders just suddenly arrived. In fact they've been around all summer, feeding up on various creepy-crawlies in the garden. Now they're fully grown, their webs are larger, and the spiders are much more noticeable.
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