Found all over the UK and Europe, as well as North America, the European Garden Spider has many names, including Diadem Spider, Orangie, Cross Spider, Crowned Orb Weaver and the Pumpkin Spider.

The perhaps best known and so far very common orb web spider species in Europe is the European garden spider Araneus diadematus. Apart from house gardens, their preferred habitats include parks ...

Let’s look at the common European garden spider: this lovely creature spins the beautiful round webs, using two types of silk. The spokes of the web are made from dragline silk. This is strong ...

Araneus diadematus, the European garden spider. The bodies of females can be up to 20mm long. Their colour ranges from dark grey to light yellow and orange, but all have large white dots forming a ...

The Munich team has now successfully used genetic engineering to produce one of the spider silk proteins of the European garden spider (Araneus daidematus). While purifying the protein by dialysis ...

For arachnophobes, it must be very upsetting. The first hazard are the webs produced by the European garden spider. These animals have natty, cryptic patterns on their abdomens that include a ...

Wu did the project during a year he spent at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on a commonspecies that has invaded North America, the European garden spider (Araneus diadematus).

Scientists from the University of Bayreuth in Germany expressed variants of one of three spider silk proteins from the European garden spider (Araneus diadematus) in E. coli. Previous studies only ...