A tiny spiderling of the 'British Tarantula' the Purseweb Spider Atypus affinis found on Dartmoor, Devon yesterday.

The Dark-clawed Chthonic, Chthonius tenuis at Higher Hyde Heath Dorset today.

A trip to Higher Hyde Heath reserve in Dorset, always a great place for late spring trips, I'll have to do three posts to get all my favourites in. First Euophrys (Talavera) petrensis. 2 male two female

Don't forget to record it at the BAS recording scheme, a nice find
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I’m thinking this may be Anelosimus vittatus (Banded Comb-footed Spider)?What do we think @britishspiders.bsky.social?

Friday 17th April
Started my walk off with this Giant House-spider 'Eratigena' on a brick wall along the F&C Canal, Maryhill.....and it was indeed a giant! One of the biggest ones i've ever seen.
#spiders #arachnidae

Intwood church on a lovely sunny day with blue sky and fluffy white clouds behind the tall, round flint tower. Two bicycles are leaning against the flint porch.

Ephippiochthonius tetrachelatus: a pale yellowish coloured pseudoscorpion sitting on a whitish piece of render. It has pale pinkish claws with a characteristic 'dimple' on the top of the claw hand.

Chthonius ischnocheles: a rather dark, shiny brown pseudoscorpion sitting on a piece of reddish brick facing right. Its claws and jaws are reddish.

Roncus lubricus: a slender pseudoscorpion with brown abdomen and shiny reddish head and claws facing right on a pale, whitish stone. The pseudoscorpions pedipalps are very long and are held wide open in front of the animal as it runs along.

Pseudoscorpions are starting to be easier to find now the weather's warming up. I carried on surveying churchyards all through winter & kept drawing blanks. Re-visits in April have proved very successful with several 'blank' churchyards now having records. Even got another East Norfolk Roncus!

Ant eating spider Euryopsis flavomaculata, Wareham heath.

Sand bear spiders, Arctosa perita. Six wonderful hours spent on the beautiful Gower, had the beach mostly to myself.

Suspect this is a female Philodromus dispar ... crab spider on Cow Parsley @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Did you know that one of the most important wetland sites in Europe - and Wales' largest lowland fen is right here in Swansea? .......

It seems the two spiders are a Fencepost Jumping Spider, Marpissa muscosa & Heliophanus cupreus. Hopefully correct ID’s @britishspiders.bsky.social

Agreed. Not 1700's, also no spiders, but I have a 1912 (1st 1887)edition of The Young Collector - Ants,Bees,Dragon-Flies,Earwigs,Crickets, and Flies. The writing style is great. Particularly like the section on Pulex irritans. "Familiar to every one" sounds so casual and everyday but also personal.

An image of a page from the text that reads "The hinder part of the body of this insect is joyned to the fore-part only by a small thread, and cover'd with a thin skin, on which are hairs of divers colours: it contains the Back, Belly, Parts of Generations, and the Anus. I shall apply my self more particularly to the Description of the Aunus, as being the Part from whence the Spiders draw their Silk; it not being my design to give a Genral Description of this Insect, but only to speak of their Silk, and the Usefulness of it. It is certain, that all Spiders spin their THread from the Aunus; about which there are five Papillae, or small Nipples, which at first sight one would take for so many Spindles, that serve to form the Thread: I have found these Papillae to me Muscular, and furnished with a Sphincter. A little within these I have observ'd two others, from the middle of which issue several Threads, in a pretty large quantity, sometimes more, and sometimes less, which the Spiders make use of...

Nobody talks about how much fun it is to read science from the 1700's. This is from Francois Xavier Bon's "A Discourse on the Usefulness of the Silk of Spiders", published in Philosophical Transactions Volume 27, in 1710. "Parts of Generations" is wonderfully euphemistic.

Pisaura mirabilis, Nursery web spider

Pisaura mirabilis, Nursery web spider

Pisaura mirabilis, Nursery web spider amongst the brambles.

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Had a few issues but all seems good now. Ta

From a sit and think in the garden during a brief moment of sunshine. Anelosimus vittatus and a nicely coloured Zebra jumping spider
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a Uloborus spider wrapping prey

these spiders lack a venom apparatus (rare in the spider world!), and instead secure their prey in a tidy silken ball, combined with toxic digestive fluids!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40506724/

look closely and you can see silk strands coming from the spinnerets

🌿 Ogmore Washeries is coming to life — more flowers and insect activity on every visit.

Highlight today was a large Adder near a path 🐍 Please take care, especially with dogs.

Just a glimpse of what we saw — more to come as the season progresses 💚

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Dorsal view.

Frotal view. A tiny hairy spider, looking towards its web.

The prettiest little flower bud you're going to see today.

Agalenatea redii, marvelously camouflaged on top of a (dry) plant.

#SpiderSky #inverts #spiders
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jumping spider, Habronattus amicus, on a central CA beach, doing a very nice job of blending in ...

Dorsal view of spider. Base colour a light brown.

Frontal view of spider. Eyes nicely visible (and absolutely adorable, in my humble opinion).

A (what I assume to be juvenile) Larinioides sp. resting on a wall.

This spider is likely looking for a place to build its magnificent orb web. Usually found near windows around my area.

#SpiderSky #inverts #spiders #orbweaver 🕷️🌿

A scared spider hunched up in a green plastic flower container. Her abdomen is very swollen suggesting she is full of eggs.

Look who I disturbed while tidying the garden! She looks frightened. Sorry! Looks like she’s ready to pop. I put her somewhere nice and safe.

A large jumping spider, brown with black stripes. Thickened front legs suggests male. I didn’t check.

The number of times I’ve checked this old gate post for spiders! And it’s finally paid dividends with Marpissa muscosa. On the Ouse Cut Off Channel.

Nice. Guess it lives up to it's name. Seived from deciduous leaf litter as you say. Been a while since I looked at a liny, forgot to check both the sites I use! Thanks 👍

Any suggestions? Best photo I have with this 2mm liny'. Simply not clear enough for me to ID. Woodland habitat, reddish legs. Hopefully someone can recognise the mantis shape. If not will keep for it for when I have better scope. Ta
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A bright yellow Tulip flower. There is a pair of pale off-white spider legs poking out of the closed flower head

The Tulip of Doom 🕷️

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Zora spinimana, a pale wolf spider

spider with larva on its back, which is probably an ichneumon wasp of the genus Polysphincta

#Spider interest with the wildlife group on Wednesday - Zora spinimana aka Ghost Spider, thanks Nigel C-H for that one. Next I don't know what the spider is but its external parasite might be an ichneumon wasp of the genus Polysphincta. I didn't find either of these. #ukwildlife

An immature Dysdera species on the wall of the house. A pale abdomen, the rest of the spider is orange, with large chelicerae. Six eyes.

Baked beans on the house wall.

It's an excellent resource