Looks like it's wearing the new MTP smock!
Dave. I think your well fed arachnid is ARANEUS DIADEMATUS , one of our more common garden spiders . I must admit , it does look as if it's just had a large prawn cocktail , 14oz T-Bone & possibly a bottle of fine claret . IE , they're not normally so fat...........
Please enough, eurgghhh spiders ! i mean i can appreciate your picture of a rather pretty garden spider Dave and at the moment i cant go up into my garden without walking through about 20 of the webs and am always waiting to look at my chest and see a big monster spider just sat there.
Best Weasel.
one living on my pepper plant,that got very protective of it....little sod even jumps at me.
And another one of those 'common garden' spiders rather lost....on a target Humber pig out on the AT range.
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Looking good on the spider diet.This is Eric my German Shepherd he loves to eat those big house spiders that run across the living room carpet yum yum. Mick.
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