In autumn, spiders and their webs become a lot more noticeable, although they're around us all year.
Here, some noteworthy UK inhabitants describe themselves and their homes. See if you can match the web to its maker.
Spider web image courtesy of PIXNIO (CCO)
Creative commons image credits
- Giant house spider image © Parent Géry via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Nursery web spider image © Lukas Jonaitis via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0
- Money spider image © Andreas Eichler via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Triangle spider image © Martin Lemke via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
- Missing sector orb-weaver image © Ian Pembroke via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Garden orb-weaver image © Böhringer Friedrich via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5
- Wasp spider image from Aqua via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
- Tube web spider image © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Diving bell spider image © Norbert Schuller Baupi via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Purse web spider image © Siga via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jumping spider image © Judy Gallagher via Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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