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Talkback: Wasps and spiders
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On Sunday I threw a vine weevil into a harvestman web. Thinking it would escape (following your blog from eons ago), I watched as the spider pounced and wrapped its prey in a thick silken cocoon. There was a slight struggle, then the weevil appeared to give up. An hour later the spider unwrapped its lunch and tucked in.
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I wouldn't have thought a web would've stopped a wolf spider that big. It's legs exceeded the palm of my hand and I have big hands.
Not sure what your spiders are, but the garden spider, Araneus diadematus does vary greatly in colour from white and grey, through brown to orange and yellow. Related A. quadratus too. If you google images of them, you get thousands of different colour-ways.
Kate