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Can anyone identify this spider

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MEgirl · 26/08/2019 20:52

A friend sent me this picture. She's new to the UK and asked me if I know but I'm hopeless when it comes to insects.

Can anyone identify this spider
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orangeshoebox · 26/08/2019 20:54

looks like a normal orb spider to me.
beautiful.

StormBaby · 26/08/2019 20:57

It's a garden cross spider

Silvercatowner · 26/08/2019 21:01

Orb spider (and an arachnid, not an insect).

MEgirl · 26/08/2019 21:06

Orb spider (and an arachnid, not an insect).<

Thanks and of course it's an arachnid. Wasn't thinking.

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Bunnybigears · 26/08/2019 21:08

That's George I would recognise him anywhere.

inwood · 26/08/2019 21:11

Ooh, I've got one of them in my garden at the moment. He is absolutely fucking huge, I've never seen anything like it.

MitziK · 26/08/2019 21:14

Huge means it's a she, not a he, Orbweaver.

But they are startlingly beautiful, especially as the weather turns and their webs are covered with thousands of tiny rainbows like jewels.

MaidenMotherCrone · 26/08/2019 21:21

That's not George, looks like George and for a moment I thought it was George too but no it's not him.

It's bloody Keith, didn't think I'd ever see him again. He's looking well, the job must be going ok for him. Oh we had some laughs together...... he was a hoot!

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