A spider has featured on this blog only once before. This little beauty is a female cucumber green spider, Araniella cucurbitina. It weaves a small orb web in a bush or hedgerow and sits in the middle of the web, relying on its camouflage for protection. The female is about 8mm across and the male is half that size,
This one had built a nest in the protection of a leaf curled over with silk.
Here she is spinning a silk thread and controlling it with a hind leg.
When last I looked there was second clump of eggs surrounded by silk and the spider had moved on. Freshly emerged spiderlings are red and they change to brown in the autumn.
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