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The animals on the cover of Oracle & Open Source are garden spiders. Garden spiders (Areneus diadematus) are orb-spinning garden dwellers. They're about one to one and three-quarter inches long, generally brownish in color, with a white cross pattern on their abdomen, formed by the guanine crystals they excrete as a waste product.