There yesterday, gone today

[Biggsy]

[FatBloke]

I've just found him in my garden! 

[Biggsy]

Her His web's gone 'an all.  Poor thing's got to start all over again.  Was a huge one right across the path.  Not the most sensible of places, especially on an extremely windy day.

[nicknack]

I thought they did a new one every day regardless. But I may be wrong. The old brain's not what it used to be.

[Wowbagger]

The garden cross spider European garden spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is an autumn phenomenon. They only make webs at this time of year and I always assumed that it was last year's brood maturing and being ready to breed, and that their disapperance was as a result of laying eggs, after which they die (read Charlotte's Webb).  According to the Wiki link only the females spin webs.

I think they are beautiful creatures and well 'ard. There was one in our garden earlier this year which was sucking the juices out of the carcase of a wasp it had killed. I reckon that was sour.

[fuzzy]

Here is one I photographed earlier (a couple of years ago).

[Wowbagger]

They're out in force again.

Sadly, for second consecutive morning I've blundered straight through a web built across the narrow passageway between the shed and the house. This time I carefully moved the spider to another part of the garden. It will be interesting to see if she comes back and builds another web in the same place tonight.

[border-rider]

Perhaps it's you she's trying to catch...

[TimO]

Come into my parlour, said the spider to the Wowbagger.

Nope, it doesn't really scan.