What will it be? Have dissected and currently in KOH. The site had oaks and I think some mature oaks, so might be praedatus but will probably be aureolus or whatever.
Back at Kenfig Burrows today with Christian Owen, searching for some of the reserve's rarest invertebrates for NRW.
We managed to find 3 target species, including the false widow spider Steatoda albomaculata. We found two individuals — a male and female (in the photo). @britishspiders.bsky.social
Last one for tonight. I weird one I took thinking it was adult, but I'm not sure it, and also, what family is this? It's a Lycosid but the anterior middle eyes are big and the anterior outside pair are tiny. Doesn't really matter, if it's not adult though.
Andrew Douglas
Andrew Douglas
Don't come across many green spiders. This one ... from below ... is quite photogenic and I think the red spot indicates a cucumber orb web spider ... Araniella cucurbitina ... on hogweed and eating something black! @britishspiders.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
Liam Olds
Gary
The BAS held its AGM on Saturday, which was followed by talks on an arachnid theme. The first of these was by Brandon Collier of the University of Galway on the Urban Ecology of the Noble False Widow (Steatoda nobilis).
It can be watched from our YouTube channel at youtu.be/FUqSYllcw9A?...
A tiny, busy female cobweb Spider, Anelosimus vittatus, we think, moving her silk-covered egg sac to her chosen place... @britishspiders.bsky.social
The second of the talks following our AGM was given by Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social of Newcastle University. Titled Friend, Foe or Freeloader, it considered the relationship between Flower Crab Spiders (Misumena vatia) and the flowers it sits on. Available at youtu.be/Gada2vNhF7w?...
Today's #spiderinthebath is the Harpactea hombergi.
Very glad to finally spot this lovely sounding spider.
ID from @obsidentify.bsky.social
I got a bit side-tracked, but here are a quartet: Walckenaeria cucullata, Hypomma bituberculatum, Thyreostenius biovatus and Walckenaeria corniculans
The last of the 3 talks that followed our AGM was on the charismatic cave spiders (genus Meta) and was delivered by Dr Thomas Hesselberg of Oxford University. He was also elected as a new ordinary member of BAS Council.
Link youtu.be/ljREHGXKiHI?...
