Stone Spiders - Drassodes sp.

    Family - Gnaphosidae
    Genus - Drassodes
    Also known as Ground Spiders.
    Fierce nocturnal hunters. They sit in a silken retreat during the daytime.
    Spinners resemble fingers and are very mobile.
    9-18mm

    Female in her Silken retreat.
    King's Standing
    Ashdown Forest
    21.05.2011

    Male Hunting on my back wall at night.
    06.05.2011

    Showing 'Finger-like' Spinners.

    Brighton
    07.09.2011

    Juvenile Male
    Hunting in my kitchen
    Brighton
    12.10.2011

 

    Back Garden, Brighton

    07.12.2010

    Gravid Female
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    01.07.2011

   Juvenile
   Pevensey Marshes
   Sussex Wildlife Nature Reserve
   East Sussex
   20.08.2011

    Quite unusual to see one sitting out in the Sun.

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    24.08.2011

    Juvenile
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    06.05.2011

    11/10/2010
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    Colour varies from from light browns, almost reddish to greys.

    This one was living on a gravestone.

    This one, between bricks and flint in a wall.
    Brighton Extra Mural Graveyard
    06/10/2010

    Young Drassodes

    My back garden, Brighton.
    13/04/2010

    Four long, tubular spinnerets at the base of abdomen.
    Back garden, Brighton
    21/04/2010

 
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    02/08/2010