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The Living Forest (262) : Cross Spider

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Mark Billiau.

Premium (World), region Antwerp, Belgium

The Living Forest (262) : Cross Spider

The Cross Spider (also known as Garden Spider) is very common in forests, heathlands, hedgerows and gardens.
It can easily be identified by the distinctive cross on the abdomen.

This spider builds circular orb webs and can usually be found sitting at the center of the web, head down, waiting for a prey to get entangled in the web.
The victim is then quickly captured and always wrapped in silk before being eaten.

The specimen in the picture was very busy weaving a new cobweb.

The female of this species is much larger than a male and thus, the much smaller male must approach a female very cautiously if he wants to mate.
Did you know that if he's not careful, he can end up being eaten by her !
Speaking of girl power…….

Dutch name : Kruisspin
German name : Gartenkreuzspinne
Latin name : Araneus diadematus

Commenti 36

moriwa 21/10/2014 19:55
wonderful picture!
LG
Monika
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Cobrak 21/12/2013 0:40
magnifica!:-)
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Heinrich Vianden Fotografie 23/11/2013 12:35
Hallo Mark,

die Gartenkreuzspinne hast Du wahrlich toll getroffen. Ich bin beim Durchsehen Deiner Bilder einfach hier hängengeblieben.

Das Bild finde ich außerdem toll, weil meines Erachtens hier alles stimmt. Der Focus liegt auf der Spinne, die dadurch sehr scharf wird. Dies bedeutet, dass die Details- und Tiefenschärfe auch sehr gut sind. Auch das Netzt ist vorhanden, jedoch nicht so scharf. Es gehört aber als Bestandteil des Bildes unbedingt mit dazu.
Insgesamt ist das ein Bild das mir sehr gut gefällt.

LG
Heinrich
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† cathy Blatt 04/10/2013 12:50
love the coloring of the background and how the spider fits into these colors and of course the detail of the spider web, fantastic shot,cathy
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BRYAN CRUTE 29/09/2013 11:24
Superb shot of this monster at work laying its web for its next victim

Regards
Bryan
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aline64 26/09/2013 8:45
une belle qualité pour cet épeire
amicalement
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Gaby Falkenberg 25/09/2013 12:55
Faszinierendes Makro von der Gartenkreuzspinne.
L.G.Gaby
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Claudio Oldrini 24/09/2013 11:54
Very nice interpretation!
Claudio
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Deryck 24/09/2013 9:05
He/she looks very mean. Maybe spiders are mean, I have never hear a kind word spoken about them :-))
The laws of nature are so different.... fortunately the option of being eaten if you lose the mating quest is not really practiced by humans :-))
Great picture and story Mark
Deryck
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Jojo. 24/09/2013 9:04
Une mise en page superbe............Bises
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Adele D. Oliver 23/09/2013 22:33
fascinating this world of spiders ... their amazingly symmetrical webs, their beauty, their habits :-)))) - and their habit of spinning their threads across our stairs and pergola and all areas that give us access to garden and road - I keep ending up with them in my hair or neck or, or :-))) your image of course excellent with such fine compo showing both net and spider, and especially with the fine details of her markings on body and liegs !!!
greetings, Adele
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Vera Shulga 23/09/2013 20:28
well captured of this common cross spider
there is here too..
very nice macro image
greetings, Vera

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troedeljahn 23/09/2013 19:31
Eine tolle Makroaufnahme. Perfekt in Szene gesetzt.

VG Wolfgang

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Markus 4 23/09/2013 19:07
stark

Habedieehre
Markus
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Mohr Wilfried 23/09/2013 19:05
Spitzenklasse.
Gruß Wilfried
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