Arachnerds

Missing Sector Orb Web Spiders - Zygiella sp.

    Family - Araneidae
Genus - Zygiella
Five Northern European species.
These Spiders make an Orb Web and leave a small section missing,
    with a single strain of silk, acting as the signal line that leads up to the retreat.
    Zygiella atrica drops straight down from its web if disturbed.

    Living on the 'Earth Ship'
    Stanmer Park, Brighton
    24.02.2011

    Biggest one I've ever seen
    Pevensey Marshes
    Sussex Wildlife Nature Reserve
    East Sussex
    20.08.2011

    Living on the Chalk Cliffs
    Cuckmere Haven
    08.02.2011

Zygiella x-notata
Thanks to Gary Bradley of uksafari.com for help in identification.

Living with Walnut Orb Weaver Spiders on the Seven Sisters
Chalk Cliffs at Cuckmere Haven,

East Sussex

02/07/2010

Zygiella x-notata

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

06/10/2010

Zygiella x-notata

The Dyke Golf Course, Brighton

13/10/2010

Zygiella x-notata
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
25/09/2010

Garden / Cross Spider - Araneus diadematus

Family - Araneidae

Genus - Araneus
Perhaps the most commonly known Spider in the UK
Spins an Orb Web. Distinctive Cross on the Abdomen.

    Old Lodge Nature Reserve
    Ashdown Forest
    East Sussex
    13.09.2011

Brighton
21.09.2011

Brighton
26.09.2011

Brighton
27.09.2011

    Male
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    09.10.2011

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
02/11/2010

Gravid Female
Brighton
07/11/2010

    Female guarding her Egg Sac, attached to a Tomb
    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton, East Sussex
    25.10.2011

Araneus diadematus (Female)

Araneus diadematus (Male and Female)

Back Garden, Brighton

01/09/2010

Araneus diadematus (Male)

Back Garden, Brighton

02/09/2010

Araneus diadematus Spiderlings
Back Garden, brighton
19/05/2010

Araneus diadematus Spiderlings on the move.

Back Garden, Brighton

17/05/2010

Back Garden, Brighton

25/09//2010

Araneus diadematus (Male)
Back Garden, Brighton
24/08/2010

Araneus diadematus (Female)

Back Garden, Brighton

28/09/2010

    Living by my backdoor.
    A fair size for the time of year.
    Brighton
    13.07.2011

Female
    Back Garden
    Brighton
    14.08.2011

Male sporting his rather elaborate Palps
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
29.08.2011

    Juvenile
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    01.04.2011

    Back Garden
    Brighton
    10.08.2011

Many thanks to Alice Hopkins who very kindly sent me this great Photograph
    of a Female Araneus diadematus
    Launceston, Cornwall
    2011

Red-Sided Sector Spider - Zygiella atrica

    Family - Araneidae
    Genus - Zygiella
    Gary Bradley from uksafari.com identified this Spider
    using the Collins Field Guide.
Very distinctive palps, Orb Web on Gorse.
They leave a small section of the web open.