I'd already seen one or two webs like this in the garden, but this one I found tonight was the first that gave me a chance to get the camera to it. The nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis) is so named because it looks after the web it lays its egg sac in. Here is the web, clearly accommodating a lot of spiderlings, with the adult female guarding the base of the tent-shaped web. Taken with 40D and 100mm macro using natural light augmented by a widely-diffused flash.



