Really glad to catch up with this species again, its been a while since ive picked it up at this site. Philodromus margaritatus @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #Philodromus #arachnids

Exciting stuff!

When you see a big female walck in the tray without the raised head turret it only screams one hope, yes a female W.obtusa. From deep in the leaf litter. Have about 4 records for this now never seen the male. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #Walckenaeria

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social Always nice to find a Walck! This female W. vigilax was the very last spider I picked up during a recent excursion; I’ve found it before but this one allowed me to photograph it properly for a change!

Love a walc, this makes 6 species at the woodland site in Sussex i record for, its Walckenaeria cuspidata. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #uk

From a wet woodland in West Sussex, leg spine count indicates Porrhomma oblitum. But to be 100% i will get my county recorder to check the specimen. Appearance looks correct. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids

Porrhomma species and with the spine count on the legs ive ruled out all of them down to one species, of course this will be sent to my recorder to confirm but im 95% sure. Its Porrhomma cambridgei! A rare beast. From a path in damp woodland. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnid #spider

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

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