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  • In this audio I take a tour of the Upton Warren Nature Reserve from the Moors to the Flashes looking at the habitat and wildlife to be seen.

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  • In this audio I am wandering along the banks of the River Dart in Devon and I look at the history of 'Tarka the Otter'.

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Comments

April

These are so fun to have around... ours always seem to become very active right in October, we dont have to put up that fake web for halloween, the spiders do it for us :)

Kat

Found your page in a Google search trying to find a photo to show my friend. I have had a lovely huge garden spider living outside my kitchen window for a couple of months now... we named her Olga! Her abdomen is larger than the hole in the centre of a CD. She is a fascinating creature for sure!

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They are not harmful to man, except for a few poor souls who may have an allergy to spider venom and even then the chances of a reaction are slim to none at all. Your skin is too tough for the venom delivery system to penetrate.

Scary Mary

My husband gust killed one the other day when he thought it was going to jump on our twin girls. We do not know how deadly they r. can anyone please email me if they r even deadly?

Amanda

We just caught one of these spiders in Billings, Montana. We have them every year, there used to be four to five of them in the porch every year before we remodeled. I was suprised to find one this late in the season. My six year old is taking her to school for show and tell today.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin, USA: We have this spider! It was by our front door for more than 2 weeks. He is amazing! He is like a new pet & we watch out for him. We feed him bugs. We had a hail storm last night & a lot of rain. Now it is getting colder out. He didn't build a new web today, which seems odd for him as he always repairs his web within an hour of any damage. I am tempted to bring him in & have him live in an aquarium we have. If they live 1-2 years...what do they do in the winter? Do spiders hibernate? We have a possible frost warning tonight!

paul hodgson

i have just found one of these spiders in a bush i was trimming, i picked her up for a closer look and she just curled into a ball. i have now put her back into the bush and she seem quite happy. i will keep an eye on her progress. kendal,cumbria,uk.

Diane Winters

I read that they don't usually eat each other but I have a huge one just outside my bedroom window that is eating any other female that puts a web close to hers. I didn't believe it until this morning. Last night there was a spider next to her in it's own web. This morning she was in the other spider's web eating it.

jane fletcher

I just found the same spider in my garden outside my bedroom window, i live in Kent in the UK. She is really fascanating to look at, her back looks like a large shell with a face on it.

Crazy

We have a large female garden spider she is very capabul of catching insects because her web is near the light where it attracts insects.

Wanda

We just killed three of these types of spiders on our back porch. They were huge - their abdomens the size of a quarter. I am sorry now after I read about the people who respect them, I have a different perspective but, will try to be more appreciate in the future of all living things. I liked the comment about the fact they look like a cat or lioness - I told my husband it looked like the face of ET!

Wes

I was just trimming a tree in Denver, CO U.S.A.. As I was moving the ladder one of these was dangling from one of the rungs. She's much lighter in color than the one in your picture. Looking at her from the back it looks like the face of a yellow cat or lioness.

kristi

wooow i just found one of these sitting by the back door, i thought i was deadly lmao thanks for putting my mine to ease x

Shannon

just found a huge female in my tomato garden - beautiful but had to move her (Toronto ON Canada)

kimmarino

We moved into our new home and there she was right over the front door. She's beautiful!
She moved over a little to the side of the house and we get to watch her everyday. At night we catch bugs and throw them into her web. I think she's grateful..
My great Grandmother said that Spiders mean money and good luck. Now we're teaching our 2 year son about respecting all living creatures.
We love having her around and hope she stays with us for a long time.
xoxoxo

beb

yea i found 1 of theese about 5 mins ago. on my face. when i was sleeping. killed it. now i feel bad :(

Kim

I found this exact spider in my back yard amongst the tomato bushes. I live in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Is this a common spider?

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nice reading ;)

Gardening Seeds

wow!!!! great pic!

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