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Araniella cucurbitina Female Araniella cucurbitina on white background. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Female Araniella cucurbitina hanging upside down in its net. Notice the red spot. (Found: Oxelösund Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Female Araniella cucurbitina hanging in its rather tiny net among the leaves. (Found: Oxelösund Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Side view of a female Araniella cucurbitina. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Female Araniella cucurbitina upside down. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Female Araniella cucurbitina facing the camera. (Found: Oxelösund Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Male juvenile Araniella cucurbitina facing the camera. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Male Araniella cucurbitina. This one is slightly older and have more black stripes. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2007 ) The red spot above the spinners of an Araniella cucurbitina. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2006 ) Male Araniella cucurbitina upside down. (Found: Nyköping Sörmland Sweden. 2007 ) Young Araniella cucurbitina before it gets its green colour. (Found: Nävsjön Sörmland Sweden. 2006 )

Facts: Family: Araneidae Scientific name: Araniella cucurbitina Common name: Cucumber spider The Cucumber spider, Araniella Cucurbitina, is easy to identify. Not only because of its green and yellow abdomen with black dots, it also have a red spot, far back above the spinners. It usually hangs upside down in its net among the plants in the garden.

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