G&J

Can anybody recognise this beastie. It comes out at night to spin its web on my sister-in-lwas washing line

ABCDiamond

Not seen one myself, but i'd be spraying the washing line pole and arms with surface spray !!! (the special one for spiders)

aussie bloke

from what i can see it's

Genus Eriophora


Formerly called genus Araneus. These are the common garden spiders that make that familiar vertical orb-web usually at face level.

The web is usually renewed after a night's use and renewed the next evening. During the day the spiders remain in a hiding nearby. Males are the same size as females but with a slender abdomen., long legs and conspicuously clubbed palps.

None of these spiders are venomous to humans.





http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/austra...araneidae.html