Talk:European garden spider

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Contents 1 untitled 2 pics 3 habitat 4 Size?

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Might be worth looking to see what they eat? just a thought? Ashley Payne 16:18, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I might take a guess at... insects? Ameise -- chat 07:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I've seen grasshoppers, flies, wasps, butterflies, etc 192.237.29.254 16:52, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pics

I uploaded a few pics. if you want to add them, go ahead! THanks http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GardenSpider_web.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GardenSpider_underside.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GardenSpider_top.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GardenSpider_RepairingWeb.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GardenSpider_onHand.JPG 192.237.29.254 16:52, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] habitat

these spiders are also found in Southern California, for whatever it's worth. I saw one in a garden in Mission Viejo, CA, in mid-Sept 2007, that was -- no BS -- 50% larger body diameter than a US 25 cent piece

it looked just like the one in your main photo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.81.25.55 (talk) 17:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Size?

I once found an absolutely enormous cross spider here in Cornwall, UK. It was approximately 1.5 inches long, and had quite a substantial bulk to it. The web it had spun was also enormous, approximately 5 foot in diameter. I've since seen a number of these spiders that have been quite a lot bigger than the usual small size, but so far none to rival the one I just described, although a few haven't been far off. Just to give you an idea the legs must have been a good 2 or 3 mm thick!

So just how large can these things get? And how do they manage to get this big? They seem to have the capacity to become fairly substantial creatures from what I've sene. Presumably Cornwall offers the right conditions for these things to get quite large but is there any record of the largest or anything about mutations? ▫Bad▫harlick♠ 08:07, 17 October 2007 (UTC)