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Spider

DateMon 2009-05-04

A spider attending to its prey. Tentatively identified as Tetragnathus nigrita, a long-jawed orb-weaving spider, family Tetragnathidae.  See this page by Jørgen Lissner for more details on this family of spiders.

Photo taken among the irises on the north shore of the large lake in Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2009-05-01.

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