A second Important record for West Sussex, I found it last year. And found it again today at a different site. Centromerus cavernarum. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #centromerus #arachnids

Another interesting Liny from the dying light of Halvana Plantation of a late afternoon last week. A second Cornish site for Maro minutus. This little 1mm thing is weirdly distinctive in the tray...aided very much by a head torch!! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social

At the end of last year i collected a spider i was hoping to raise that all changed when this parasitic fungi took hold of it i suspect gibellula sp. Quite fasinating really. @britishspiders.bsky.social #gibellula #spider

Honourable mentions (this list was very tough to compile and I feel I need a way to cheat a bit): Clockwise: Gasteracantha doriae, Walckenaeria nodosa, Haplodrassus minor, Walckenaeria corniculans, (thanks @chizz13.bsky.social and @chalkspring.bsky.social)

A few from last weekend in West Sussex. Walckenaeria cucullata, Centromerus serratus and Cicurina cicur. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #sussex

Great Record on Sunday, Centromerus serratus this record makes two sites now in West Sussex that ive picked this species up. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #centromerus

This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens. @britishspiders.bsky.social

From an ancient beech woodland in West Sussex, its a pig to get to with all the gear, and to date ive never seen much there. But thats has changed samples from the 9th November have produced Centromerus cavernarum!!One i had hoped for there. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social

Centromerus serratus, from a site in Sussex. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk Really happy to find this spider (another follow-up of Rowley Snazell's old Bucks records). From a site I'd visited previously, but looking at in a new way, thanks to a tip from @chizz13.bsky.social Walckenaeria dysderoides #spiders

Nice to see this one, its the first time ive seen the male. From a woodland site in Sussex. Pachygnatha listeri. @britishspiders.bsky.social

My 3rd record for Walckenaeria obtusa at this woodland site, all 3 have been in moss under pines, all my W.nudipalpis records from that site are from leaf litter under sweet chestnut trees. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social

One that i dont pick up that often, a Nationally Scarce species. Picked up in West Sussex. Monocephalus castaneipes @britishspiders.bsky.social

Centromerus serratus picked up this week, I havent seen any since Feb this year. So now its one female and one male this year from a West Sussex site. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Great to see Steatoda albomaculata at long last, in high numbers too. Interesting that it doesn't seem to want to move far, a bit like Asagena phalerata which it was alongside. The webs are brilliant, a typical Theridiid snare underneath very low vegetation over sand @britishspiders.bsky.social

Great records this week, for the West Sussex site i record for a male and female Hahina pusilla, waiting on a second opinion on the male but the female is easier to ID. Good records for a scarce species. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Great day Recording last week, i see these a fair bit on a site i record for, but i picked up 2 adult males and 1 adult female quite easily deep in Sweet Chestnut leaf litter. Normally i find the odd one in moss. Walckenaeria dysderoides a nationally scarce species. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Couple of nice records this week for West Sussex. Centromerus sylvaticus and Tapinocyba insecta. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A spider ive been looking for, ive found immatures but this is the first Adult Ero tuberculata, from West Sussex @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #erotuberculata #arachnid

Uncovered this stunner while lifting heather in search of Gnaphosidae, Last record i can see in 1995 for this site, ive seen the webs before but never the spider, ive searched for wandering males no luck as of yet. Atypus affinis @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids

Recorded two females and four male Thomisus onustus from a site in west sussex first time ive found them at this site, last records are from Dick Jones in 1996 so great the species is still there and doing well. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #thomisusonustus #ukspiders

Oh look, what do we have here - funny little egg sacs again under stones on the cliffs, this time in Dorset. Yep, Micaria albovittata again! @britishspiders.bsky.social

Ive only seen this spider once before in my home. Its an adult male Theridion familiare. West Sussex @britishspiders.bsky.social

A recent Trip out with @graemelyons.bsky.social on a survey he picked up this male Walckenaeria furcillata, and handed it to me to photograph its the first time ive seen this species and what a crazy looking Walc 😁. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Always a nice spider to catch up with this species Uloborus walckenaerius, classied as a rare species. West sussex. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Always a nice spider to catch up with this species Uloborus walckenaerius, classied as a rare species. West sussex. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Pick this species up earlier this week two males, Ive done recording a few times on this shingle site and thought the habitat would suit this species, glad my persistence paid off a great record for west sussex. Pseudeuophrys obsoleta, a nationally scarce species. @britishspiders.bsky.social

This species is Tiny compared to the rest of this Genus its Haplodrassus minor. I recently picked up a few whilst surveying a site in west sussex. It was quite abundant there. Classied as nationally scarce. @britishspiders.bsky.social

One from last week in damp woodland. Haplodrassus silvestris. Classied as nationally scarce. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Micaria subopaca, from West sussex. First time ive seen this species. Classied as nationally scarce. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A Sussex beauty! Found earlier today the elusive Pachygnatha listeri. What Stunning species. @britishspiders.bsky.social

While undertaking a small survey last week i picked up this one Liocranoeca striata a first for me,the habitat was vegetated shingle. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Such a stunning spider, Cheiracanthium virescens @britishspiders.bsky.social

Zelotes apricorum, recorded from pine litter. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Maro minutus, a scarce species and also ridiculously small! @britishspiders.bsky.social

Thyreosthenius parasiticus picked up in West Sussex, its also a new record for West Sussex. Found in a Beech woodland. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids

Gongylidia latebricola, nationally scarce. West sussex. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Picked up on a recent survey and a New record for Sussex, Maro minutus a nationally scarce spider. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Walckenaeria dysderoides a Nationally scarce spider. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #walckenaeria

Here we have a male Walckenaeria acuminata just look at it, a common spider but how fasinating is it! @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #walckenaeria

New to west sussex picked up on the 20th of Feb from damp woodland. Centromerus serratus classied as nationally rare. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Couple of scarce ones from sussex collected back in september. Gongylidiellum latebricola and Saaristoa firma. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Nice to catch up with this nationally scarce species again, Walckenaeria obtusa. There is something really fasinating about this Genus. #winterspiders #spiders @britishspiders.bsky.social

A merry band of #spiders, most of them lifers, from a very eventful January! #winterspiders [1/4] Taranucnus setosus (NS), Walckenaeria corniculans (NR), Tallusia experta, Sintula corniger (NS) @britishspiders.bsky.social

Christmas present, half paid kindly by BAS through the Stanley Dobson Award grant and the other half by my wife. Stunning books and something ive wanted for ages. @britishspiders.bsky.social

First post on here i give you Walckenaeria cucullata. I do love this Genus so interesting. @britishspiders.bsky.social