Day 253/18. Garden Cross Spider.

Another creepy crawly today. This is a Garden Cross Spider, one of the UK's largest spiders.
Garden Cross Spiders weave enormous and conspicuous orb webs, which if you hunt for, you should still find in your garden, strung across paths, windows, between shrubs and even in front of doors. These busy spiders are night spinners, weaving gloriously elaborate silk web in preparation for a day of hunting to catch their prey, including a host of garden visitors such as butterflies, wasps and flies.