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Common garden spider on web. Shot taken yesterday in my granmother's garden. Location of his web was on the roof so it was difficult to use tripod and catch perfect sharpness. For better macro I use Raynox DCR-250.
Some information about the species taken from Wikipedia:
The European garden spider (Araneus diadematus, cross spider), also called the Cross spider in Eastern Europe is a very common and well-known orb-weaver spider in Western Europe. Araneus diadematus also lives in parts of North America, in a range extending from New England and the Southeast to the Northwestern United States and adjacent parts of Canada.
Individual spiders' colouring can range from extremely light yellow to very dark grey, but all European garden spiders have mottled markings across the back with five or more large white dots forming a cross. The white dots result from cells that are filled with guanine, which is a byproduct of protein metabolism.[1]
Garden spiders have been known to stridulate when threatened.
It is hard to provoke a garden spider to bite - if it does, the bite is slightly unpleasant, though utterly harmless to humans.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Araneus
Species: A. diadematus
I had to use NeatImage to clear some noise.
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