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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Cross Spider (Araneus diadematus)
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Cross Spider (Garden Spider) - Araneus diadematus
Copyright © 2006 Ray A. Akey

Cross Spider (Garden Spider) - Araneus diadematus
Windsor, Ontario, Ontario, Canada
August 11, 2005
Size: 1 1/4 inch
This guy is living on the planter/pot of my wife's Fuschia, hanging from our front porch. When I took the garbage out early this morning, he had a HUGE web almost blocking the porch doorway.

Photo shot with a Canon EOS20D and Sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro.

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Contributed by Ray A. Akey on 3 October, 2006 - 4:13am
Last updated 7 January, 2008 - 4:17am

Lens Error
I think you were using a 150mm f/2.8. 1500mm seems king of big. I wouldn't have bothered except that I prefer to be told about my own goof ups of which there are plenty.
… Steve Nanz, 5 January, 2008 - 5:30pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks Steve, I appreciate the correction, which I have applied.
… Ray A. Akey, 7 January, 2008 - 4:18am login or register to post comments

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