Tylan Berry
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Spiders. It's all about the spiders.
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Finally! Drepanotylus uncatus from the mires at CWT Red Moor. This fills in the gap between Goss and Bodmin Moor nicely. I only ever see this species in the very wettest mires, normally in floating Sphagnum. It can be incredibly abundant in the right places in winter. @britishspiders.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Finally! Drepanotylus uncatus from the mires at CWT Red Moor. This fills in the gap between Goss and Bodmin Moor nicely. I only ever see this species in the very wettest mires, normally in floating Sphagnum. It can be incredibly abundant in the right places in winter. @britishspiders.bsky.social
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A very shaky phone video of what I think is Nigma walckenaeri on ivy yesterday in my local churchyard.
#Arachnids #spiders #luckyme
#Arachnids #spiders #luckyme
February 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
A very shaky phone video of what I think is Nigma walckenaeri on ivy yesterday in my local churchyard.
#Arachnids #spiders #luckyme
#Arachnids #spiders #luckyme
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
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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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#gibellula #spider
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#gibellula #spider
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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#gibellula #spider
@britishspiders.bsky.social
#gibellula #spider
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Small, pale and interesting - Asthenargus paganus a denizen of the Spruce plantation moss floor. Couple more 🎄Welsh records to add to the UK distribution map. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Small, pale and interesting - Asthenargus paganus a denizen of the Spruce plantation moss floor. Couple more 🎄Welsh records to add to the UK distribution map. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
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A lovely photo of a sub-adult male Bridge Orbweb Spider (Larinioides sclopetarius)
Tuesday 23rd Dec
A nice male Larinioides sp. Found on the window of a moored abandoned boat on the Forth & Clyde Canal (Applecross)
#spiders
A nice male Larinioides sp. Found on the window of a moored abandoned boat on the Forth & Clyde Canal (Applecross)
#spiders
December 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A lovely photo of a sub-adult male Bridge Orbweb Spider (Larinioides sclopetarius)
Happy new year to all you fellow spiderers! Didn't think I'd be seeing out 2025 with Porrhomma montanum from the deep, cold, darkness of a Bodmin Moor conifer plantation! What is this doing in Cornwall!?! @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @chalkspring.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Happy new year to all you fellow spiderers! Didn't think I'd be seeing out 2025 with Porrhomma montanum from the deep, cold, darkness of a Bodmin Moor conifer plantation! What is this doing in Cornwall!?! @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @chalkspring.bsky.social
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🧵A very happy New Year to all our followers and a gentle reminder that it's never too late to resolve to submit your #arachnid records to the GB #Spider, #Harvestman and #Pseudoscorpion Recording Schemes via our #iRecord form: irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-re.... #NewYearsResolution #MakeYourRecordsCount
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January 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
🧵A very happy New Year to all our followers and a gentle reminder that it's never too late to resolve to submit your #arachnid records to the GB #Spider, #Harvestman and #Pseudoscorpion Recording Schemes via our #iRecord form: irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-re.... #NewYearsResolution #MakeYourRecordsCount
I know I'm biased, but how can you beat Aulonia!?
My top ten highlights of 2025! What a difficult year it was to rank these, there were so many amazing moments!
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January 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I know I'm biased, but how can you beat Aulonia!?
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Any suggestions for this @britishspiders.bsky.social please? From a kitchen cupboard, c. 5mm body length. The epigyne seems oddly protruded. Looks a bit like some of the larger linyphiids but not sure. Sorry for poor photos!
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Any suggestions for this @britishspiders.bsky.social please? From a kitchen cupboard, c. 5mm body length. The epigyne seems oddly protruded. Looks a bit like some of the larger linyphiids but not sure. Sorry for poor photos!
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Pales in comparison to @chalkspring.bsky.social's, but here's my Spider Top 10 for 2025!
I've stuck to lifers and gone for rewarding over rare. One genus will show up thrice, and I will not apologise!
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I've stuck to lifers and gone for rewarding over rare. One genus will show up thrice, and I will not apologise!
@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Pales in comparison to @chalkspring.bsky.social's, but here's my Spider Top 10 for 2025!
I've stuck to lifers and gone for rewarding over rare. One genus will show up thrice, and I will not apologise!
@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social
I've stuck to lifers and gone for rewarding over rare. One genus will show up thrice, and I will not apologise!
@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social
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@britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social Some of my favourite UK finds of 2025.
Happy New Year #spiders
Happy New Year #spiders
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social Some of my favourite UK finds of 2025.
Happy New Year #spiders
Happy New Year #spiders
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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
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Picked up in West Sussex.
Monocephalus castaneipes
@britishspiders.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
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The seven year old in me still gets excited when I go to Bristol, whatever the nature of the visit. There's always time to stop to play with Segestria florentina! @britishspiders.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The seven year old in me still gets excited when I go to Bristol, whatever the nature of the visit. There's always time to stop to play with Segestria florentina! @britishspiders.bsky.social
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I found this spider on the railings under the road bridge over the River Taff. Though it was sitting in its retreat, there was an orb-shaped web next to it, with a missing sector, but this doesn't look quite right for Zygiella x-notata. Thoughts please, spider people.
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I found this spider on the railings under the road bridge over the River Taff. Though it was sitting in its retreat, there was an orb-shaped web next to it, with a missing sector, but this doesn't look quite right for Zygiella x-notata. Thoughts please, spider people.
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Yesterday's #Aractober is this epigyne. After last weekends ID session giving the Linys another go. Still working out what it is so any help would be appreciated!
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yesterday's #Aractober is this epigyne. After last weekends ID session giving the Linys another go. Still working out what it is so any help would be appreciated!
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
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1/2 Looking for Badumna!
Over the past two weeks this Aussie has been spotted at stores from Barry, Cardiff, Brecon and Llandudno! When visiting any local store type mini garden section could you check for Badumna? The webs are easy to spot. Take a picture and add to the feed for ID help.
Over the past two weeks this Aussie has been spotted at stores from Barry, Cardiff, Brecon and Llandudno! When visiting any local store type mini garden section could you check for Badumna? The webs are easy to spot. Take a picture and add to the feed for ID help.
October 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
1/2 Looking for Badumna!
Over the past two weeks this Aussie has been spotted at stores from Barry, Cardiff, Brecon and Llandudno! When visiting any local store type mini garden section could you check for Badumna? The webs are easy to spot. Take a picture and add to the feed for ID help.
Over the past two weeks this Aussie has been spotted at stores from Barry, Cardiff, Brecon and Llandudno! When visiting any local store type mini garden section could you check for Badumna? The webs are easy to spot. Take a picture and add to the feed for ID help.
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#Aractober. Segestria cf. bavarica (juv) from the shed door. This one decided to sprint up my jumper sleeve! Tbh it's not the first time it's happened.
Think I managed to shake it out😂
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Think I managed to shake it out😂
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October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#Aractober. Segestria cf. bavarica (juv) from the shed door. This one decided to sprint up my jumper sleeve! Tbh it's not the first time it's happened.
Think I managed to shake it out😂
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Think I managed to shake it out😂
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I've forgotten how satisfying it is putting similar species side by side this way! The undersides of male Zora armillata (above) and spinimana (below), with their respective palps. Nice to compare the coxae of legs4 - the "brillo pad" of hairs in Z. spinimana is clear. @britishspiders.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I've forgotten how satisfying it is putting similar species side by side this way! The undersides of male Zora armillata (above) and spinimana (below), with their respective palps. Nice to compare the coxae of legs4 - the "brillo pad" of hairs in Z. spinimana is clear. @britishspiders.bsky.social
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Testing the new hand gel on palps from todays excursion to Sweet Briar Marshes in Norwich. Clubiona stagnatalis, Bathyphantes approximatus and a Centromerita bicolor so large I didn't think it was a linny.
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Testing the new hand gel on palps from todays excursion to Sweet Briar Marshes in Norwich. Clubiona stagnatalis, Bathyphantes approximatus and a Centromerita bicolor so large I didn't think it was a linny.
I knew I Zora difference!!
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I knew I Zora difference!!
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
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No 15 and halfway ish there #Aractober it's the appropriately named 'black bummed money spider' Ostearius melanophygius @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
No 15 and halfway ish there #Aractober it's the appropriately named 'black bummed money spider' Ostearius melanophygius @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social