James Chisnall
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Im an engineer by trade, but im at my happiest when im out recording spiders.
A second Important record for West Sussex, I found it last year. And found it again today at a different site. Centromerus cavernarum.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:48 PM
A second Important record for West Sussex, I found it last year. And found it again today at a different site. Centromerus cavernarum.
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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
January 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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.
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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)
Clockwise: Gasteracantha doriae, Walckenaeria nodosa, Haplodrassus minor, Walckenaeria corniculans, (thanks @chizz13.bsky.social and @chalkspring.bsky.social)
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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)
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.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A few from last weekend in West Sussex. Walckenaeria cucullata, Centromerus serratus and Cicurina cicur.
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Great Record on Sunday, Centromerus serratus this record makes two sites now in West Sussex that ive picked this species up.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great Record on Sunday, Centromerus serratus this record makes two sites now in West Sussex that ive picked this species up.
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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.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.
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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.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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@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
Walckenaeria dysderoides #spiders
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@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
Walckenaeria dysderoides #spiders
Nice to see this one, its the first time ive seen the male. From a woodland site in Sussex.
Pachygnatha listeri.
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Pachygnatha listeri.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Nice to see this one, its the first time ive seen the male. From a woodland site in Sussex.
Pachygnatha listeri.
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Pachygnatha listeri.
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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.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
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One that i dont pick up that often, a Nationally Scarce species.
Picked up in West Sussex.
Monocephalus castaneipes
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Picked up in West Sussex.
Monocephalus castaneipes
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November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One that i dont pick up that often, a Nationally Scarce species.
Picked up in West Sussex.
Monocephalus castaneipes
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Picked up in West Sussex.
Monocephalus castaneipes
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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.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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.
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My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...
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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
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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.
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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.
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Walckenaeria dysderoides a nationally scarce species.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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.
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Walckenaeria dysderoides a nationally scarce species.
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Couple of nice records this week for West Sussex.
Centromerus sylvaticus and Tapinocyba insecta.
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Centromerus sylvaticus and Tapinocyba insecta.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Couple of nice records this week for West Sussex.
Centromerus sylvaticus and Tapinocyba insecta.
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Centromerus sylvaticus and Tapinocyba insecta.
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A spider ive been looking for, ive found immatures but this is the first Adult Ero tuberculata, from West Sussex
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August 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A spider ive been looking for, ive found immatures but this is the first Adult Ero tuberculata, from West Sussex
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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
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August 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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
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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.
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July 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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.
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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
June 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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
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June 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ive only seen this spider once before in my home. Its an adult male Theridion familiare. West Sussex
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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 😁.
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June 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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 😁.
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