Spiders and their Webs
April 2004

In summer and autumn the Saint Andrews Cross spiders make an impressive sight in the gardens of Sydney. They create webs that stretch between trees and often gather in colonies of 10 or more, all sharing one very large, overlapping web.

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A loner in our front garden, beside a fly that was captured earlier.

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One dewy morning in early April this web appeared glittering in the sun in our back yard.

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The builder was nowhere in sight. What photographer could resist?