Quite stop off in the New Forest before heading to Bournemouth, glad i did, not the spider i was looking for, but super happy with this. Dipoena melanogaster Classied as rare and endangered. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #Dipoena
James Chisnall
@chizz13.bsky.social
Im an engineer by trade, but im at my happiest when im out recording spiders.
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 🤧
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
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
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
Nice to see a couple of these yesterday,a male Walckenaeria atrotibialis. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #walckenaeria #arachnids
Walckenaeria atrotibialis becomes the 7th Walck for a wet woodland site i record for and the 114th spider Species for the site. @britishspiders.bsky.social #Walckenaeria #spider #arachnid
A non native spider that im sure is going to spread found in a Damp woodland in West Sussex, second one ive picked up. Erigone dentosa @britishspiders.bsky.social #erigone #Spiders #arachnids
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!
Shreyas Kuchibhotla@snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 4mo agoTwo Oxon firsts from casual fencepost spidering - Walckenaeria vigilax from....a bus stop and 'what appears to be Typhochrestus simoni(!!) from a damp urban meadow. Really goes to show what an effective method it can be to meet otherwise elusive linys... @britishspiders.bsky.social
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
@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
