You’re welcome :).
Your guest is not a house spider, but you may have a garden, which is where these spiders belong, so I don’t think he’s planning to settle down inside your house. He probably got lost and disoriented while roaming around at night in search of a female. Very typical of male orb weavers 😀
After your identification, I searched for information about the species and put him back in the garden. It’s a shame; he’s much bigger than our other guests. Hope he doesn’t get eaten when he finds his true love. 😀
Honestly, I don’t know if orb weavers practice sexual cannibalism. I’ll have to read up on this. However, male spiders have to be very careful when approaching females. As a rule, females are bigger, sometimes much bigger than males 😉
It doesn’t seem to be a given, but it does still occur.
Males of A. diadematus are vulnerable to cannibalism at any stage during courtship and copulation. Of 52 experimentally staged matings, 25% were terminated by the female capturing the male before copulation took place. A further 15% of the males were captured after making their first insertion. Sexual cannibalism is often reported from field observations (e.g. Bristowe 1958), and we found dead males in the webs of females in natural populations of spiders on the north Norfolk coast.
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I think this is Araneus diadematus, a male.
Thanks. I left the windows tilted overnight and found the guest this morning.
You’re welcome :).
Your guest is not a house spider, but you may have a garden, which is where these spiders belong, so I don’t think he’s planning to settle down inside your house. He probably got lost and disoriented while roaming around at night in search of a female. Very typical of male orb weavers 😀
After your identification, I searched for information about the species and put him back in the garden. It’s a shame; he’s much bigger than our other guests. Hope he doesn’t get eaten when he finds his true love. 😀
😀 😀
Honestly, I don’t know if orb weavers practice sexual cannibalism. I’ll have to read up on this. However, male spiders have to be very careful when approaching females. As a rule, females are bigger, sometimes much bigger than males 😉
It doesn’t seem to be a given, but it does still occur.
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Thank you so much for sharing your information!