Nephila plumipes

This big spider, the "Nephila plumipes", was making a huge web in our garden this summer. It wasn't disturbed at all when I was almost touching her to make photos, as the wind was blowing the web all the time so it was hard to get a clear shot. But this one is perfect!


Half a year later, in autumn, another, smaller "Nephila plumipes", was weaving her web every evening between the trees in front of the chicken pen with the result that I regularly run into it early the next morning, face first.... But one evening, it was still light enough to make photos without the flash, I caught her weaving, look at the little hole in her back were the webbing starts, how sophisticated!