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    BRITISH WILDLIFE

    Spider season: who lives on a web like this?

    By Lisa Hendry

    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. 

     

    British wildlife

    Find out about the plants and animals that make the UK home.

    Get closer to nature


    Creative commons image credits

    Giant house spider © Parent Géry [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Nursery web spider © Lukas Jonaitis [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Money spider © Andreas Eichler [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Triangle spider © Martin Lemke [CC BY-SA 3.0 DE], via Wikimedia Commons

    Missing sector orb-weaver © Ian Pembroke [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Garden orb-weaver © Böhringer Friedrich [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons

    Wasp spider courtesy of Aqua via Wikimedia Commons

    Tube web spider © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Diving bell spider © Norbert Schuller Baupi [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Purse web spider © Siga [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

    Jumping spider © Judy Gallagher [CC BY 2.0], via Flickr