Far From the Madding Crowd: Four Spot Orb Weaver spider

Sunday, 1 September 2013

Four Spot Orb Weaver spider

Four Spot Orb Weaver spider, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

Taken at Morden Bog, close to where the Wasp spiders are.

3 comments:

Roy Norris said...: I never see these colourful spiders Lyn.
Good shot again.; 1 September 2013 at 16:55
Richard Pegler said...: Super photo of that spider, Linda! That's one big juicy body it's got!; 1 September 2013 at 17:47
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Roy and Richard. These spiders are common and they vary in colour. There was one that was orange, couldn't get a good picture of it.; 2 September 2013 at 15:00

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.