A Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis
Posts by Esmond Brown
Excellent find. Is that the full Ozyptila/Cozyptila set for you?
X is a cesspit
Favourite? Really? I'm not having that – there are some fabulous species in this family: Asagena phalerata, Parasteatoda lunata, any Dipoena/Lasaeola, Rugathodes, Sardinidion
An insect body part, recovered from an 80cm deep peat core in a mid-Norfolk fen. It seems quite a distinctive shape, so somebody may even know what species it is from. Let me know if you do! 1.3mm.
Hello darkness, my old friend?
Yes, Ange showed me some close-up stills. I've never seen this behaviour before – in Pirata or any other Lycosidae.
@angelajaneswinn.bsky.social you should post some of the later footage
That Ephippiochthonius is very nice
A small spider with a pitted orange cephalothorax in the family Tetragnathidae - Pachygnatha listeri, Lister's Thick-jaw
A small spider with a pitted orange cephalothorax in the family Tetragnathidae - Pachygnatha listeri, Lister's Thick-jaw
@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @bucksinvertgroup.bsky.social A spider that's neither rare nor particularly scarce. It has, however, taken me an awful long time and many fruitless searches to finally find Pachygnatha listeri
Those egg sacs are amazing
After searching for this spider at other sites and failing to find it, i was glad to pick this male up at the weekend, old records from the site nearly 20 years old. Zelotes electus.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
#zelotes #spiders #arachnids
Someone innocently stumbling across this thread is going to be traumatised!
We call that 'mouthfeel'
The forbidden caviar 😋
Assuming you're in the USA, this is Hibana gracilis, Garden Ghost Spider
I think that's Lathys humilis
Fence Post Jumping Spider – Marpissa muscosa – Rindenspringspinne
Yes, a very pale Steatoda nobilis, Noble False Widow
Pardosa nigriceps for the Lycosid
Lovely shots. Your spider is one of the Metepeira species, perhaps Metepeira labyrinthea, rather than Larinioides cornutus
First recorded in UK in 2020, so unlikely to be in anything but the most recent keys
Dicranopalpus larvatus
It's a spider (Thomisus onustus) – gets my vote every time
Wow, what a stare!
Your male looks mature to me - the palps are quite discreet in this genus. Look for a tibial apophysis - it's not present in immatures
Brilliant effort! What a wonderful way to go about it too!
Looked again. TMI & IV are roughly 0.4
2-2-2-2, I can't see any metatarsal trichbothria on I or IV
Sodom and Gomorrah had higher moral standards than USA
Mystery Linyphiidae found under a plant pot in a UK harden centre. 2-2-2-2 tibial spine count, 1.5mm body length
@britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social Looking for help with identifying this 1.5mm Liny, please. Found in a garden centre so might not be on the British list, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction