Nick Upton / Missing sector orb-weaver (Zygiella x-notata) spinning its web on an ivy covered fence at night, Wiltshire, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Missing sector orb-weaver (Zygiella x-notata) male on the wall of a house porch, Wiltshire, UK, October.

Chris Mattison / Missing-sector orweb spider (Zygiella x-notata) female guarding her egg-sac, Catbrook, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

Nick Upton / Female Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) wrapping a Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) with silk after injecting it with venom. Chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Rod Williams / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) Brockley, Lewisham, London, UK. July.

Rod Williams / Comb footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) on leaf, Brockley, Lewisham, London, England, July.

Chris Mattison / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) female guarding egg-sac in rolled-over oak leaf, South Yorkshire, England, UK, December. September. Focus-stacked image

Bernard Castelein / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) on Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), Insag, Brasschaat, Belgium, August.

Adrian Davies / Spider (Enoplognatha ovata) on Stinging nettle (Utrica dioica) leaf with captured larva of a Peacock butterfly (Inacis io), Devon, England, UK, July

Nick Upton / Female Comb footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata or latimana) guarding egg sac in silk shelter on grass seedhead, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, August.

Stephen Dalton / Comb footed spider (Enoplagnatha ovata) UK, Theridiidae

Stephen Dalton / Comb footed spider (Enoplagnatha ovata) UK, Theridiidae

Stephen Dalton / Scaffold web / Comb footed spider (Enoplagnatha ovata) with damselfly prey, UK, Theridae

Kim Taylor / Spider {Enoplognatha ovata} female with egg sac on nettle leaf. UK.

Duncan Mcewan / Spider with egg sac {Enoplognatha ovata} Scotland, UK

Premaphotos / Red-and-white spider (Enoplognatha ovata) feeding on a Bumble bee in web, UK

Nick Upton / Female Common candystripe / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) with Bumblebee prey on a Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum), chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Red-legged spider wasp (Episyron rufipes) female dragging a Missing sector orb web spider (Zygiella x-notata) into its nest burrow in a bare sandy patch of heathland, Dorset, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Red-legged spider wasp (Episyron rufipes) female dragging a Missing sector orb web spider (Zygiella x-notata) to its nest burrow in a bare sandy patch of heathland, Dorset, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Common candystripe / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) female hunting on a Greater knapweed flowerhead (Centaurea scabiosa), chalk grassland meadow, Wilthire, UK, July.