5th location I have recorded in the #Cardiff and Vale area and new for me. Don't know if anyone else has recorded it. All have been garden centre type locations. Culver, Wenvoe, Barry, Rhymney, Cardiff Bay retail park. Recommend anyone looking for one to watch youtu.be/VcwaoM9wauQ?...

This harvestman sieved from flood debris by the River Taff in Cardiff seems to be Dicranopalpus larvatus, possibly a first for South Wales unless there are any records in the pipeline @megabunus.bsky.social?

Badumna longinqua. This time B&Q Culverhouse Cross. On the frame of the auto doors in the garden section. Webs scattered about the place. @britishspiders.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk

Update on the group of Helpis I found in Nov. They have gone through a few moults. Female is now mature. More by luck than anything else the other one turns out to be a male. Still looks immature to me. Will do both ID's when male has matured.

Trawling through old photos and found this of Scytodes thoracica, the spitting spider, from my old flat in Brynmill. In 2020 this was the western-most record in Wales on inaturalist, but someone found one two roads over last year. I’m further west now, I need to find another to get my pride back!

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1/2 Had a chance to spend time with R.Gallon at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales recently. Managed to find some small Pholcid's in the hot house. They relate to Quamtana sp. ZFMK Ar 12707 AFF. kabale (working name) Seemingly new to Britain. Photos/ID credit R.G @britishspiders.bsky.social