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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited September 2020
     Sorry to butt in again @RAwarrior but it looks like a holy cross spider 

    Araneus diadematus  The females are huge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneus_diadematus

  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneus_diadematus

    @rawarrior it looks like the cross spider

  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    Hi @leeCal

    You’re not butting in and I really appreciate your knowledge?

    I also don’t know anything about ? 
    I am not scared of them and if I see one in the house I try to catch it and put it outside? I never kill spiders.

    I am also used to seeing them because I like gardening but I had never seen such a big or unusual spider before. I was deadheading some flowers in order to collect the seeds and I accidentally broke the spider’s web and then I saw it?
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,041 Championing
    Thats an interesting looking spider, I wouldn’t have expected to see one like that in the UK

    How big was it?
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    @66Mustang

    Approximately just over 2 cms across.

    Thankfully I don’t mind spiders but I have never seen one that looks like that before?

    The ones I usually see are the small ones that I find difficult to catch to put outside. As I said I saw it by chance because I broke its web when I was dead heading some plants so I took a picture because it was so big and unusual?
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    @66Mustang

    Sorry I am really not with it today if you want to read my other posts?

    I meant the body was approximately just over 2cms across not including the legs which were also about 2cms long.


  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    The female cross spider is very large and I’ve never seen one, but I have seen many male cross spiders and they are pretty big too.
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    @leeCal

    I have never seen this type of spider before and I do a lot of gardening.

     I don’t really see that many insects these days apart from slugs and snails?
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,041 Championing
    RAwarrior said:
    @66Mustang

    Sorry I am really not with it today if you want to read my other posts?

    I meant the body was approximately just over 2cms across not including the legs which were also about 2cms long.


    I read them, sorry to hear you were struggling yesterday. I hope you feel a little bit better today?

    For some reason after seeing your picture I decided to read about spiders on Wikipedia and then when that happens I always click something else in an article and read about that too. I spent about an hour reading random stuff!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @RAwarrior it probably depends on what part of the country you’re in, I’m in a warm dry area so perhaps that’s why I see so many cross spiders, have done for years as they’re quite unmistakable.
  • gaz1960
    gaz1960 Online Community Member Posts: 292 Empowering


    First of the  "Big Boy" tomatoes in the garden have started to ripen. 
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    Hi @66Mustang

    Thank you for your support once again?

    I really do appreciate it?

    You can thank @leeCal for the information which he provided about the spider as I didn’t have a clue about what type of spider it was?

    I am a little bit better today thanks, however, I am getting physically and mentally worn out by having to constantly repeat myself to my employer?

    I am actually questioning whether or not I explain myself properly. People like yourself and others on this wonderful online community don’t seem to have any difficulty in understanding me so I don’t understand why I have to keep on repeating myself when I talk to my employer?

    The problem is thanks to my employer effectively condoning the bullying and harassment I got PTSD as I have mentioned extensively on several other threads. 

    An added problem is that as you know I was already disabled because of my RA and OA so when I get stressed the result is that my psychical pain increases thereby impacting on my mood.?

    I am fed up because for some reason the Equality Act 2010 doesn’t apply to me?
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    Hi @leeCal

    I actually know very little about spiders. 

    Thankfully they don’t bother me but it was a surprise to see such a large and unusual ? 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    They look great @gaz1960! You'll be having bolognese for weeks
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Could anyone give me any advice about some good outdoor plants for winter? Our garden is full of flowers and we are want to try keep that as the weather gets colder. :)

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