Baby Garden Spiders also Garden Orb Weaver/Cross Spider

While the common Garden Spider is brown, its newly-hatched babies are radio-active yellow and black warnings. Above right: comparison of batch of hatchlings with thumbnail.

They quickly disperse, start hunting tiny insect prey and grow rapidly.

Colour of the juvenile changes from yellow to orange to rufus brown as the cross pattern appears.

Even as a tiny juvenile, it can build a sizeable orb web.