Nick Upton / Furrow Orb weaver spider (Larinioides cornutus) near a Green drake mayfly (Ephemera danica) it has caught and wrapped in its riverside web, Lacock, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nick Upton / Furrow Orb weaver spider (Larinioides cornutus) wrapping a Green drake mayfly (Ephemera danica) caught in its riverside web, Lacock, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Robin Chittenden / Furrow spider (Larinioides cornutus) Norfolk, England, UK, June.

Tony Wu / Joro spider (Nephilia clavata) female a type of golden silk orb-weaver spider common in Japan during the autumn. With the spider's chelicerae, or jaws, clearly visible. These deliver a neurotoxin simi...

Nick Upton / Bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius) spinning its web at night on a weir over a river, Somerset, UK, July.

Rod Williams / Orb-weaving spider (Larinioides) on meadow foxtail Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, Eltham, London. May

Nick Upton / Female Furrow orb weaver / Foliate spider (Larioniodes cornutus) spinning its web , Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nick Upton / Female Furrow orb weaver / Foliate spider (Larinioides cornutus) spinning its web near a river bank, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Chris Mattison / Furrow orb-weaver (Larinioides cornutus) male, Derbyshire, England, UK. August.

Bernard Castelein / Orb weaver spider (Larinioides cornutus) building web, Brasschaat, Belgium, April

Paul Hobson / Bankside orb weaver spider (Larinioides cornutus) in reed flower head that has gone to seed, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA) competition 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / della Ferrera / Orb weaver spider (Larinioides sp) on web near a Daffodil, probably (Narcissus radiiflorus) near the Sturba river, Bastasi area, Southern Livanjsko Polje basin (karst plateau) Bosnia and Herzegovina,...