I'm happy this is Agyneta saxatilis. Getting the better pictures helps a lot, but now, what about all the mollis I have found at Narborough? Are they wrong? I checked and I don't think so. For a start, I had a male, and the others look like mollis. Doing the one from the other meadow now.
Fake news is putting Dartmoor’s ponies at risk.
New deep dive by me into the current furore around Dartmoor's ponies.
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...
I'm not sure if I can see that bar that goes across in cespitum? In the photo with the back lighting.
Tiso vagans. A common spider but new to me.
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Another Agyneta with the sticky-out epigyne, but this one could be mollis, but in fact, looks more like saxatilis, in a way. Except I can't find an image of saxatilis with the sticky-out epigyne. So, mollis or saxatilis? @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
After dissection I'm not sure if this is Philodromus aureolus or cespitum. I think we've ruled out praedatus. I think given the shape of the undissected epigyne, I'm going with aureolus. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
A tiny, busy female cobweb Spider, Anelosimus vittatus, we think, moving her silk-covered egg sac to her chosen place... @britishspiders.bsky.social
Also a pair of Phylloneta sisyphia, male and female, and a strange pale Anelosimus vittatus female.
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I think this is Common Meadow Rue. Is it particularly rare, or is it something else that is? Most plants marked with a pole, as if important.
There’s been a deluge of misinformation recently about ponies on Dartmoor. Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s Tony Whitehead looks at the origins and potential impacts of the current “pony campaigning". He st...
