Keith Burton's photos with the keyword: Araneus diadematus

My wife spotted these on Wednesday evening clustered on the vertical side of our garden waste wheely-bin. I quickly grabbed my macro gear and got a few shots. If you view this one large, you'll see that they're held against the bin by a fine web which stops them from falling off. It must be stronger than it looks because they are still there today. I'm really surprised the birds haven't found them yet..!!

This is the commonest and most well known of the Orb Web spiders..........and I found it, funnily enough, in my garden. I would have liked to have got an overhead shot, but it refused to cooperate. The background is a rather grubby panel on the wall underneath one of our back windows,. Best viewed large if you can bear it..!! I normally have dozens of these in my garden at this time of year, but this is one of only 3 or 4 I've seen so far :-(

Taken in my front garden after a rain shower! View large if you can stand it. :-)

We have lots of these of various sizes in our garden at the moment. This one is currently guarding our domestic waste wheelie-bin! Best viewed large...............depending on your attitude towards spiders..!!

Taken in the garden........funnily enough! Around 10mm long. Lovely viewed large, on black. Thank you.