Eeek spider! Anyone know what this is?
edit: apparently it's some sort of [Garden Orb Weaver].
So, there's this spider that's been just hanging about, doing its thing outside my house for over a week. No-one else seems as freaked or fascinated by it as me. Anyway, just wondered whether anyone knows what sort of spider it is?
I'm loathe to kill it or capture it, since I generally dislike consciously killing things, plus I'm afraid that I might actually lose. Or, I'll mess it up, and it'll get away, and then I won't know where it is, which is probably worse. A couple other pics [here], including [this one], that shows it next to a wind chime that might help give an indication of its size.