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Posts by Esmond Brown

A Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis

1 week ago 0 0 0 0

Excellent find. Is that the full Ozyptila/Cozyptila set for you?

2 weeks ago 1 0 1 0

X is a cesspit

2 weeks ago 4 1 0 0

Favourite? Really? I'm not having that – there are some fabulous species in this family: Asagena phalerata, Parasteatoda lunata, any Dipoena/Lasaeola, Rugathodes, Sardinidion

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
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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.

3 weeks ago 19 8 3 4

Hello darkness, my old friend?

4 weeks ago 1 0 0 0

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

4 weeks ago 2 0 2 0
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That Ephippiochthonius is very nice

1 month ago 1 0 0 0
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

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

1 month ago 16 3 1 1

Those egg sacs are amazing

1 month ago 1 0 0 0
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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

1 month ago 12 3 0 0

Someone innocently stumbling across this thread is going to be traumatised!

1 month ago 2 0 1 0

We call that 'mouthfeel'

1 month ago 3 0 1 0

The forbidden caviar 😋

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

Assuming you're in the USA, this is Hibana gracilis, Garden Ghost Spider

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

I think that's Lathys humilis

1 month ago 1 0 1 0
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Fence Post Jumping Spider – Marpissa muscosa – Rindenspringspinne

1 month ago 1 0 2 0

Yes, a very pale Steatoda nobilis, Noble False Widow

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

Pardosa nigriceps for the Lycosid

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

Lovely shots. Your spider is one of the Metepeira species, perhaps Metepeira labyrinthea, rather than Larinioides cornutus

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

First recorded in UK in 2020, so unlikely to be in anything but the most recent keys

2 months ago 1 0 1 0

Dicranopalpus larvatus

2 months ago 1 0 1 0

It's a spider (Thomisus onustus) – gets my vote every time

2 months ago 2 0 1 0

Wow, what a stare!

2 months ago 1 0 1 0
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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

2 months ago 2 0 2 0

Brilliant effort! What a wonderful way to go about it too!

3 months ago 1 0 0 0

Looked again. TMI & IV are roughly 0.4

3 months ago 0 0 0 0

2-2-2-2, I can't see any metatarsal trichbothria on I or IV

3 months ago 1 0 1 0

Sodom and Gomorrah had higher moral standards than USA

3 months ago 5 0 1 0
Mystery Linyphiidae found under a plant pot in a UK harden centre. 2-2-2-2 tibial spine count, 1.5mm body length

Mystery Linyphiidae found under a plant pot in a UK harden centre. 2-2-2-2 tibial spine count, 1.5mm body length

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@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

3 months ago 5 1 2 0