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garden spider - a spider common in European gardens

spider - predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

Aranea, Araneus, genus Aranea, genus Araneus - a genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders

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It's a garden spider, sometimes called a garden cross spider, which has built a web and is trying to trap any remaining flying insects before the onset of winter.

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aurantia, or just aurantia for short, but this species goes by several common names -- garden spider, black-and-yellow Argiope, writing spider and, for some reason, only in our area, it's known as the banana spider.

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"We succeeded in producing a recombinant silk protein from the European garden spider," Scheibel says.

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Garden spider. Ben said: " I took this image on a particularly nice morning, with a heavy dew exposing the deadly silken insect traps."

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excelsa is a common Indian garden spider which it would not be unreasonable to find on the UAE's East Coast.

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In magical, surprising spreads, a garden spider hangs from a leaf, its web a delicate backdrop, and a honeybee surveys its complex comb.

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Even the common cross or garden spider (araneus diadematus) has been accused of attack.

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21) or that "the European Cave Spider (Meta menardi) consumes only one-eighth the oxygen of a similarly-sized Garden Spider" (p.

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Araneus sp.; Black and yellow garden spider, Argiope auraentia Lucas; Borrowing wolf spiders, Gelycosa spp.; Thin-legged wolf spiders, Pardosa spp., and two un-determined Trap-door spiders of the family Ctenisidae.

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He did this by casting a large garden spider that had been resident under my living room window in my direction without warning.

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The most studied spider silks come from the golden silk spider, Nephila clavipes, and the European garden spider, Araneus diadematus.

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