Also known as Meta segmentata, this spider is most numerous in autumn. You can tell she's a female because she is nice and fat and lacks the clumpy palps of the male, which are held like boxing gloves in front.
Metellina is very variable in colour but always has a patterned folium like an oak leaf on her back.
It is the commonest orb web spider species in northern Europe.
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