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A Buzzing Spider (Anyphaena accentuata) found in some local woods just after dark 🔦.

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December 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Me, before coffee!
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Spider with mad 'hairstyle' - Linyphiidae - Floronia bucculenta
August 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
spiderznbeetlez.bsky.social
Found one of these again! 😃Thyreosthenius biovatus, from inside a wood ants nest in a wood in northern Derbyshire last weekend 🕷️🐜 #ukspiders #arachnids #spiders
May 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
emilypricejourno.bsky.social
🕷️ Heard a buzzing whilst I was watering the onions and found a battle was going on between a black slip wasp and a false widow spider (I think!).

🐝 If you look closely you can see the spider using its silk to wrap and immobilise the wasp.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
Bit of an old pic (taken on a rare sunny day 😀), but still a valuable part of nature, the humble garden spider

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September 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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This unusual spider is a Spitting Spider (Scyctodes thoracica). A new species for me and a very welcome find on an after-dark mooch around the garden. One of the few UK spiders with only 6 eyes.
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April 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Britain's biggest spiders - the 'giant' arachnids with legs up to 7.5cm long
Discover the six biggest spiders in Britain, as revealed by BBC Countryfile, and where you'll find them.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) in the (you guessed it!) garden, Leeds UK. June 2025.

Another 'macro' shot taken on my iPhone 7 Plus.

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June 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Spitting spider! And she has an egg sac 😄 I'm always happy to find these fascinating and unique spiders in the house (and they can have all the silverfish they want!) #SaturdaySpider #SpiderSky #UKSpiders #Spider
A unique-looking small spider with cream/black striped legs, a grey abdomen and a cream/black pattern on its carapace (head and shoulders). The spider clinging to the edge of a window ledge, with a white lumpy egg sac carried beneath her. Text from Wikipedia: Scytodidae catch their prey by spitting a fluid that congeals on contact into a venomous and sticky mass. The fluid contains both venom and spider silk in liquid form, though it is produced in venom glands in the chelicerae. The venom-laced silk both immobilizes and envenoms prey such as silverfish. In high-speed footage the spiders can be observed swaying from side to side as they "spit", catching the prey in a criss-crossed "Z" pattern; it is criss-crossed because each of the chelicerae emits half of the pattern. The spider usually strikes from a distance of 10 to 20 millimetres (0.39 to 0.79 in) and the entire attack sequence only lasts 1/700th of a second. [5] After making the capture, the spider typically bites the prey with venomous effect, and wraps it in the normal spider fashion with silk from the spinnerets. [6]
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
Morning all
Busy starling parents.
I've used insect hashtags, because they are the essential part of this moment, part of the food chain...
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June 17, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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Just had a nice Textrix Denticulata on our garden bin.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
wheatersdave.bsky.social
A standoff by the front door last night, Acleris logiana vs Odiellus spinosus (if obsidentify is to be believed). Both disappeared by morning, possibly the last moth action of the year #teammoth #ukspiders
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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On mornings like this you realise just how many spiders live in the woods 🕸️
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Spiders’ webs catching the morning sunlight amongst the trees and undergrowth in a Scottish woodland. I think there at least 10 to be found in the photo.
September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I noticed something odd on the back of this Clubiona terrestris’s cephalothorax but I didn’t twig what it was until it had eaten most of the spider’s abdomen, pupated and emerged as a rather lovely Schizopyga frigida. #parasitism. From Cranwich Camp on 21-Mar with @davidnorgate.bsky.social
Male Clubiona terrestris with the larva of the parasitic wasp Schizopyga frigida on its “neck”. The spider is pale brown, darker on the abdomen. #UKspider #UKspiders #arachnid #ecology Palp of the Clubiona terrestris (needed to confirm the species identification). Adult Schizopyga frigida that had eaten the spider’s abdomen when it was a larva. Its head and body of black but the legs and antennae are partly orange. The front and middle legs are almost uniformly orange (a little dark at the apex of the tibia and tarsi, and the orange is paler at the base of each section) but the hind legs are boldly banded dark and pale orange. #UKwasp #UKwasps #parasite #entomology Adult Schizopyga frigida that had eaten the spider’s abdomen when it was a larva. Same insect viewed directly from above.
April 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Something to brighten up a dull day! 🩷💗💜 The wonderful Thomisus onustus or Heather Crab Spider. All pictures taken last summer.

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February 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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🏠🕷 Did you know? Autumn is spider season in the UK! These eight-legged visitors are not just harmless housemates but also natural pest controllers, consuming thousands of insects every year.

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Common House Spiders Found in the UK
Surprisingly, of the 650 spider species found in the UK house spiders range from tiny 2mm money spiders to the impressive Cardinal Spider, which can reach a leg span of 12cm. While most of us spot…
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April 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Even the best predators sometimes miss their catch. This Tube Web Spider (Segestria florentina) isn't going hungry, though – a prime position under this lamp means plenty of nighttime visitors @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #ukspiders
July 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Forgot the #alttext

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Not very good pic of a flesh fly in the grip of a flower crab spider. The spider has changed her colour to match the yellow of the dandelion they’re both on. Just like their namesake, crab spiders can run sideways using their super strong forelegs. Flower crab spiders also have the extra special ability of being able to change colour to blend in with the flower head they’re using as ‘bait’. Flesh flies are incredibly beneficial insects. Adults are excellent accidental pollinators because they’re not fussy when searching out nectar to feed on. They might not be able to carry as much pollen as bees, but they make up for their lack of hairs by their sheer number. Let’s hope it never becomes the case, but one day we might be relying on flies to pollinate our crops. Flesh flies are also detritivores, both adults & larvae are attracted to & consume rotting organic matter, helping return nutrients the soil. I’m writing this on my phone without my specs - apologies if it reads like nonsense
April 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
stevetypesstuff.bsky.social
Hi can @britishspiders.bsky.social I’d this species for me. Very active and hard to photograph as it would not stop walking. Male? 30mm across the legs (approx), distinct pale yellow markings on the abdomen. Safely released!
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A spider sits on the back of my hand. Dark brown, 30mm across, with pale markings on abdomen. Dorsal view. A spider sits on my hand. Club-shaped pedipalps.
August 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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It jumped from the table (they are a species of "Jumping spider" after all! 😁) onto my leg, and then climbed up on to the bench's armrest to get a better view of me! Love, or lunch? 😅 #ZebraSpider #JumpingSpider #UKSpiders #Spiders #Kent #England
June 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I found a wishlist species for me yesterday 😀 - the Lichen Running Crab Spider (Philodromus margaritatus). I spent another couple of hours staring at tree trunks but couldn't find any more! 😅🔎
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March 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Was working in my greenhouse today and came across this lovely little spider. Picked her up gently and moved her to a safer spot but not before taking a few photos first #nature #ukspiders
A small brown spider in a tray with soil and seeds. A small brown spider walking on a hand. A close up of a spider.
May 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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One of my favourite photos from last year. An imature Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia)perched on a ladybird in our garden.

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February 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Spiders aren’t my favourite things as a rule but sometimes I can’t resist trying to put a name to them. This little one was in my garden moth trap in September and as it was sort-of pretty and had developed pedipalps I thought it was worth a go. Ozyptila praticola if I’m not mistaken. #UKspiders
The crab spider Ozyptilus praticola, a small spider with a dark brown speckled abdomen. The carapace is reddish brown with a broad pale central line and the orangey-brown legs have blackish bands netting beyond their whitish bases. Left pedipalp off the Ozyptila praticola.
December 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
Morning all
Nice to finally see bees active in the lavender.

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July 22, 2024 at 3:58 AM