Biology DPhil student at Oxford - particularly fond of snakes, spiders and centipedes (and their toxins) | Hobbyist macro photographer
Shreyas Kuchibhotla
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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.
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The best kind of lime Jello!
The iconic Micrommata virescens - the UK’s only Sparassid, my 375th British spider and perhaps the first spider I set my sights on when I started getting into arachnology back in 2022.
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Another London specialty joins the ranks of Philodromus buxi in Oxford - Anyphaena sabina
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An attempt to photograph this Philodromus aureolus mid-moult on the clothes pegs revealed a very impatient male waiting for her to finish! He briefly locked horns with another male while she decided she wanted nothing to do with either of them...
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I nominate @tylanberry.bsky.social @chizz13.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @thomasbarbin.bsky.social and @forthespiders.bsky.social to give us some more #EccentricErigoninae!
First up in a new #EccentricErigoninae series, where some of the weirdest Erigonine headgear is on display - Diplocephalus permixtus, a tiny (and supposedly common) spider I finally found for the first time yesterday.
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