Colourful teeny baby garden spiders. Warning - photo

Found a cluster of them in our greenhouse. Never seen so many at once! Anyone know if they have a name? (as in species/variety name, not Jeff or Malcolm )

 

The thing about teeny garden spiders is that they grow into bigger garden spiders.

I'm not sure what they are but I think somebody else will come along who'll know.

 

just found something similar myself in the greenhouse, although mine looked to be just brown, but very tiny
thought they were eggs at first, then when i touched them they all scurried off at high speed, ughh!

 

Had them before - thought it was a bit of moss - touched it - and yes they scurried off - and for ages afterwards they were hanging off the roof of the greenhouse - had to move them every time I went i there to avoid them dropping into my hair . Since then when I find them in the greenhouse they are evicted to a place of safety outside.

Araneus diadematus
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Araneus_diadematus_-_baby_spiders_1_(aka).jpg

Adults:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_garden_spider

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thanks for that *shudder*

 

Nice pic! Looking forward to seeing all the bugs again this year. Especially the spiders, mwahahahaha!

 

i don't mind them so much when they're little....but then they do have to go & get bigger don't they i predict lots of screaming & panicked flapping of hands in their future