Invisible Spiders - Drapetisca socialis

    Family - Linyphiidae
    Genus - Drapetisca 
    Single European species.
    Graeme Lyons from Sussex Wildlife Trust named this one for me.
    Impossible to see, the aptly named Invisible Spider, until they move.
    I leant against a Beech tree and two of them darted away very fast.

    Friston Forest, East Sussex

    13/08/2010

    Male
    Friston Forest
    12.07.2011

    Female
    Dulwich Wood
    London
    14.09.2011

    Female
    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton, East Sussex
    25.10.2011

    Female with Egg Sac

    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton
    13.12.2011

 

    Female with Aphid prey

    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton

    30.11.12