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Swaddled in the finest #silk #evolution has provided, and watched over by their protective mother, c. 700 newly hatched Fen Raft #Spider -lings await emergence into a world that's left them globally #RedListed & vulnerable to extinction. #Dolomedes plantarius @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Swaddled in the finest #silk #evolution has provided, and watched over by their protective mother, c. 700 newly hatched Fen Raft #Spider -lings await emergence into a world that's left them globally #RedListed & vulnerable to extinction. #Dolomedes plantarius @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #Christmas
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Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
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The webs of winter-active spiders, in all their amazing variety, are spectacularly highlighted by frost, as well as dew. For more information on the types of capture webs constructed by different groups and species of spiders, see our Factsheet 7 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
December 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The webs of winter-active spiders, in all their amazing variety, are spectacularly highlighted by frost, as well as dew. For more information on the types of capture webs constructed by different groups and species of spiders, see our Factsheet 7 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
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Did spiders go soot-black during the Industrial Revolution? 🕷️
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Did spiders go soot-black during the Industrial Revolution? 🕷️
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Signed and posted on Facebook and Twitter.
The Guga “hunt” must end. Sign the petition: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Signed and posted on Facebook and Twitter.
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I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
WOW... what I would give to see that 😀
From the BBC : an enormous (106 sq.m) spider’s web created by two spider species in a cave in Greece
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
World's biggest spider's web discovered in cave
Scientists have studied what they believe is the world's biggest spider's web and found two species of spider are living side by side.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
WOW... what I would give to see that 😀
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Pumpkin Patch Tarantula!🕷️🎃
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Pumpkin Patch Tarantula!🕷️🎃
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social Good morning G. I take great care of the live mealworms I keep to feed my garden birds and notice that some of the material I give them, they've started pulling fluffy bits off and now seem to be putting it in certain places. Are they doing this for warm bedding?
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social Good morning G. I take great care of the live mealworms I keep to feed my garden birds and notice that some of the material I give them, they've started pulling fluffy bits off and now seem to be putting it in certain places. Are they doing this for warm bedding?
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
Male Greater Spotted Woodpecker who had managed to prize out of the feeder a chunk of suet block and was very happily pecking at it until he spotted me at the window and just flew away with the remaining chunk in it's beak 😆
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Male Greater Spotted Woodpecker who had managed to prize out of the feeder a chunk of suet block and was very happily pecking at it until he spotted me at the window and just flew away with the remaining chunk in it's beak 😆
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
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If you are celebrating Bonfire Night this weekend, wherever you live in the world, please check for Wildlife before lighting! 🔥🦔 If you live in the UK please check for hedgehogs as they will make a home in an unlit bonfire pile 🪵🦔🍂 #bonfire #bonfirenight #hedgehog #nature #wildlife #halloween #hogs
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you are celebrating Bonfire Night this weekend, wherever you live in the world, please check for Wildlife before lighting! 🔥🦔 If you live in the UK please check for hedgehogs as they will make a home in an unlit bonfire pile 🪵🦔🍂 #bonfire #bonfirenight #hedgehog #nature #wildlife #halloween #hogs
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Best time of year to be an arachnologist 🕷️ Although the finer morphological details seem to be missing on this fine specimen drawing, preventing ID at species level
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Best time of year to be an arachnologist 🕷️ Although the finer morphological details seem to be missing on this fine specimen drawing, preventing ID at species level
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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the ghostly Great Grey Shrike! 👻
A scarce winter visitor, it haunts open landscapes, scanning for prey from high perches.
Known as the 'butcher bird', it impales its catch on thorns...a spooky spotlight for Halloween! 🩸
A scarce winter visitor, it haunts open landscapes, scanning for prey from high perches.
Known as the 'butcher bird', it impales its catch on thorns...a spooky spotlight for Halloween! 🩸
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the ghostly Great Grey Shrike! 👻
A scarce winter visitor, it haunts open landscapes, scanning for prey from high perches.
Known as the 'butcher bird', it impales its catch on thorns...a spooky spotlight for Halloween! 🩸
A scarce winter visitor, it haunts open landscapes, scanning for prey from high perches.
Known as the 'butcher bird', it impales its catch on thorns...a spooky spotlight for Halloween! 🩸
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How about some spiky spiders tonight? This one is Micrathena acuta, a spiny orbweaver found in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. It is believed that the spines serve as a defense from birds and even predatory wasps.
Cuyabeno Reserve, 2024
Cuyabeno Reserve, 2024
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
How about some spiky spiders tonight? This one is Micrathena acuta, a spiny orbweaver found in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. It is believed that the spines serve as a defense from birds and even predatory wasps.
Cuyabeno Reserve, 2024
Cuyabeno Reserve, 2024
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intimidating stare of a female Platycryptus undatus 🙇
#arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
in situ, fuji, laowa 65mm
#arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
in situ, fuji, laowa 65mm
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
intimidating stare of a female Platycryptus undatus 🙇
#arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
in situ, fuji, laowa 65mm
#arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
in situ, fuji, laowa 65mm
What a beauty 😃
Hedgehog Harvestman Nemastomella bacilliferum, Plymouth, Devon, this very distinctive but tiny harvestman is found at several sites around the city. It has not been found anywhere else in the UK but may be overlooked? It is usually found sat on the underside of rocks lying on the ground.
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What a beauty 😃
A complete outrage 😡
Respect seems to be a vanishing trait these days. 🙁
I always treat them with the respect they deserve.
Respect seems to be a vanishing trait these days. 🙁
I always treat them with the respect they deserve.
When I was a boy growing up in Ednburgh, we were taught to stop and remove our school cap if a hearse and cortege went past. A simple mark of respect.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pontyclun funeral director says road rage incidents 'happening weekly'
One funeral director says the incidents were happening
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A complete outrage 😡
Respect seems to be a vanishing trait these days. 🙁
I always treat them with the respect they deserve.
Respect seems to be a vanishing trait these days. 🙁
I always treat them with the respect they deserve.
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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.
WOW... what a brill idea...
Plastic-free washing up sponges and more 🫠😃💖
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Plastic-free washing up sponges and more 🫠😃💖
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October 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
WOW... what a brill idea...
Plastic-free washing up sponges and more 🫠😃💖
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Plastic-free washing up sponges and more 🫠😃💖
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Some key stats on UK immigration
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Some key stats on UK immigration
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Do you know if the audio clip was recorded in Europe?
Presume not in the UK as that sounds like a male Chiff Chaff territorial call in the spring 😘
Presume not in the UK as that sounds like a male Chiff Chaff territorial call in the spring 😘
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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#ukmothid in The Forest of Dean
I'm still trying to find out what this moth is and I can find lots with a red bald patch but not with black spots on the edge of its wings.
Any ideas please? 😄
I'm still trying to find out what this moth is and I can find lots with a red bald patch but not with black spots on the edge of its wings.
Any ideas please? 😄
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#ukmothid in The Forest of Dean
I'm still trying to find out what this moth is and I can find lots with a red bald patch but not with black spots on the edge of its wings.
Any ideas please? 😄
I'm still trying to find out what this moth is and I can find lots with a red bald patch but not with black spots on the edge of its wings.
Any ideas please? 😄
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I don't recognise the markings on this one...
I don't recognise the markings on this one...
October 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I don't recognise the markings on this one...
I don't recognise the markings on this one...