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It's Textrix denticulata time!

As soon as I spotted a bee hanging in this bush I knew It would the the victim of a crab spider. #KnollGardens @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social

Found this beautiful spider today. Unsure of the species, closest I can see is Mangora acalypha but given the location (VC64) and habitat (rough vegetation between grassland and mixed scrub/woodland) doesn't seem very likely. Any ideas @britishspiders.bsky.social ? Sorry about the rubbish photos.

🚨 TWERK ALERT 🚨 New publication from @sleeblab.bsky.social ! This was a very fun project to write up, co-lead by @nadjageiger.bsky.social and Chiara Hirschkorn. If you are interested why these spiders might bob their abdomen: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (Short thread following soon)

Philodromus dispar from the kitchen the other day.

another cute jumper, they always look deep in thought

Philodromus being escorted outdoors. Photo on my new phone (Redmi Note 14 Pro).

Whaaaaaaat!? Another one! Whilst looking for Altella lucida at the CWT Penhale reserve, we spotted three "ants" running incredibly fast across some scree. Nope, not ants, Micaria albovittata! Another clifftop rarity being found new to one of the most worked cliffs here! @britishspiders.bsky.social

Husband came up to me and told me (proudly) that he had relocated a jumping spider that was crawling up his arm onto one of my houseplants (Rhaphidophora tetrasperma). I love this man with all my heart 🥹❤️ The spider appears to be a male marpissa muscosa. #SpiderSky #Spiders #Inverts 🪴🕷️🪲

May has been so busy my #SpiderADayForMay has been derailed somewhat. Mainly because I have been looking for spiders & finding some superb ones.😆 So here is a mash up to catch up. NB. None were actually mashed. All found on arable reversion in various locations.

Cucumber orb weaver (Araniella cucurbitina) having breakfast #spiders #invertebrates @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Things from the garden this morning; assumed Broad Bordered Chaser, more H.pubescens and Linyphia hortensis. The dragonfly was quite beaten up - there were two but only one stayed.

This little guy on my front door wasn’t in the mood to hang around! A Zebra jumping spider I think @britishspiders.bsky.social #Spider #Speedy #Camden #London

Sputnik Spider (Paidiscura pallens) found on Oak leaves on Salthouse Heath, Norfolk. @norfolknats.bsky.social

Phew, what a busy fortnight it's been to round off May! Over the past two weeks, we’ve carried out surveys at Merthyr Mawr NNR, along the Wales Coast Path at Llanelli, in woodland at Llandeilo, and in woodlands in the lower Neath Valley...and all alongside many guided walks and training events.

How does a spider choose its flowers? 🕷️🌸 Meet Misumena vatia – an ambush predator that hunts pollinators, takes down huge prey, and even changes colour to camouflage. Join @envirosyment.bsky.social on 2 June to see how modern ecology uncovers these secrets: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...

Very taken today with the golden, wiry gossamer domes protecting the Cumber Spider's (Araniella cucurbitina) golden egg sacs. A female present on two domes and mighty hungry too. @norfolknats.bsky.social

Episinus sp, which I thought showed some features good for maculipes? It definitely has a white patch on the sternum. Beaten off of a large patch of Ivy growing down over a wall in the lane directly behind the house in Filton, S. Glos. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social

The mythical beast known as Trochosa spinipalpis from a local site (thanks @judywebb.bsky.social). After putting in hundreds of hours looking across southern England, I wasn’t disappointed! They really do look dark, almost earthy in the field. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social

A regular to my house every year. Found at the weekend Theridion familiare @britishspiders.bsky.social #arachnids #Theridion #spiders

So not only did i find a new site for Centromerus serratus at the weekend I was gob smacked to also pick up 7 yes 7! female Centromerus brevipalpus!! Good Sussex records! What a day. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #Centromerus #arachnids

Two really good records this weekend i will start of with this one, Tapinocyba mitis picked up on the back of a heathland site in West Sussex. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #tapinocyba #arachnids

Zebra Jumping spiders are a real favourite of mine, this one is doing lunch on the patio (doors!) @britishspiders.bsky.social

What amazing weather this weekend, I hope everyone has filled it with excellent spiders! A highlight for me was seeing this massive Gnaphosa occidentalis with her invert graveyard - remnants of various beetle elytra, earwigs, other Gnaphosa and even a Dysdera. @britishspiders.bsky.social

The spiders did not disappoint this weekend - 4 lifers! Heliophanus apiatus and Tetragnatha pinicola with @chalkspring.bsky.social (pictured is another individual from today), as well as Cryptachaea riparia and Pachygnatha listeri (so it DOES exist...)

Friday afternoon on Yr Wyddfa yielded Pardosa trailli. Last record at this location was in 1919!! @britishspiders.bsky.social Rest of weekend wiped out by a lurgy 🤧

An attempt to photograph this Philodromus aureolus mid-moult on the clothes pegs revealed a very impatient male waiting for her to finish! He briefly locked horns with another male while she decided she wanted nothing to do with either of them... @britishspiders.bsky.social

I had to get really close before I realised why this Noon Fly at Lodmoor was hanging in such an odd position - incredible camouflage from the Flower Crab Spider! @britishspiders.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

As I’m starting to record Arachnids, might as well start close to home. An Eratigena so. possibly duellica (Giant House Spider) & a Pseudeuophrys, possibly lanigera (House Jumping Spider). #kentnature @britishspiders.bsky.social

When the sand got too hot in the afternoon this Sand Running Spider Rhysodromus fallax climbed up some Marram grass to rest adopting a different camouflage pose. Braunton Burrows, North Devon thanks @tylanberry.bsky.social

The beautifully camouflaged Sand Running Spider Rhysodromus fallax, 3 found at Braunton Burrows, North Devon today thanks @tylanberry.bsky.social

When curiosity overtakes self preservation...if you think it looks good, check it! Glad i did - the first time I've seen Haplodrassus dalmatensis and the first Cornish record in 20+ years. Yet another addition to the ridiculous assemblage on the West Lizard cliffs! @britishspiders.bsky.social

Naphrys pulex courtship (it went on for 2+ minutes before I was like you know maybe I could film this, the people might like it). Salticids are the best 🥹 #EmotionalSupportSpood

Hi @britishspiders.bsky.social Sorry to hit you up again, but this jumping spider landed on me today and I don't think I've ever seen one different from the ordinary zebra spiders. So just wondered about this one.

Just a Sunday afternoon reminder, as if one was needed, that spider design is right out there - in this case, the Magnolia Green Jumping Spider from the US.

Fabricius' Nomad Bee ♀︎ (Nomada fabriciana), Yellow-rattle (Rhinanths minor) & a Cucumber Spider (Araniella cucurbitina) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Look at our cute little jumping spider friend. He's living in our window pouncing on the tiny flies that come in during summer

Presuming this is Oonops domesticus. It's not really possible to check tibial spines with a hand lens. Found in the bathroom of my caravan on Exmoor around 5.00am this morning. I noticed it because of the short dashes it was making. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Another London specialty joins the ranks of Philodromus buxi in Oxford - Anyphaena sabina @britishspiders.bsky.social

At a friend's house yesterday and pleased to find a rubbish spider. More like rubbish pics tbh! Cyclosa conica or Trash Line spider. Wikipedia says it has no common name if anyone wants to update it. This one is the regular var. if the others are still recognised as so. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Nice to see a couple of these yesterday,a male Walckenaeria atrotibialis. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #walckenaeria #arachnids

Pardosa amentata, the spotted wolf-spider, chillin' pond side this evening for (not really an) #InsectThursday 🌱 #spiders #arachnids #bugsky #UKWildlife

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Found this rather lethargic little fella today at work. Think it's a noble false widow spider @britishspiders.bsky.social B68, West midlands.

Took the beating tray up to the cut off channel. A large fat Clubiona species, (I think, the unmistakable) Neottiura bimaculata and a hairy moth which may or may not be a Knot Grass, from Brambles. Lots of adult male Philodromus but had nothing to collect them in.