Monday, March 7, 2011

Mystery Spider

Does anyone out there fancy themselves to be a bit of a spider expert? Because I found this fine specimen last week and can't for the life of me figure out what type of spider it is. If you need a bit of size context, that thing he's eating is a bee. Click for a (slightly) larger picture.


2 comments:

PTR said...

We've had one just like it outside our kitchen window for a few months now. It made an enormous, beautiful web. When it shed its skin and produced baby spiders I decided to move it over the fence to the neighbour's block.

Pink Stethoscopes said...

That sounds like good spider management. My registrar suggested that this fellow might be an orb spider ...