Woodlouse Spiders - Dysdera sp.

    Family - Dysderidae
    Genus - Dysdera
    These six-eyed, nocturnal Spiders have long Chelicerae/ jaws,
    with large fangs capable of catching and eating Woodlice.
    Found in damp but warm habitats, under stones, logs and other debris.

    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton, East Sussex
    25.10.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    01.04.2011
  

Comb - Footed Spiders - Enoplognatha sp.

    Family - Theridiidae
    Genus - Enoplognatha
    Delicate looking Spiders.
    Eight European Species. 

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    28.07.2011

    Female feasting on a Hoverfly
    Living on Sweetcorn in my back garden
    Brighton, East Sussex
    24.07.2011

    Back Garden, Brighton
    01.07.2011

    Kitchen wall, Brighton
    11.07.2011

    Back Garden
    Brighton
    12.05.2011

    Harvestman stash
    Brighton
    30.07.2011

    Enoplognatha ovata
    11/08/2010

    Enoplognatha ovata
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    16/08/2010

   

    Enoplognatha ovata
    Stanmer, Brighton
    22/07/2010

Tube Web Spider - Segestria senoculata

    Family - Segestriidae
    Genus - Segestria
    These Spiders live in Tubular retreats - holes in walls and bark
    and sometimes under stones. The retreats have trip wires connected to
    the entrance. I have observed them backing up and seemingly,
    pulling 'curtains' shut inside their tubular retreat
    They are quite aggressive Spiders and are very fast. They rush out to grab
    prey then drag it back into the retreat. First three pairs of legs point forwards.
    These Spiders are also known as Snake - Back Spiders.
    They have six eyes. Cylindrical, elongated Abdomen.

    Flint wall
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    09.10.2011

    By my front door.
    Brighton
    10.10.2011

   The Snake-Back
   Lots of them living in Flint Walls
   Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
   16.08.2011

    Lots of them living in walls of my back garden
    This Male is above my back door
    Brighton
    29.08.2011
  

    Segestria senoculata with an Aphid in it's jaws.

    Living around my Kitchen Window Sill
    Three of them living in same vicinity.
    06.05.2011

    I observed this False Widow - Steatoda nobilis,
    assuming she had been bitten by the largest Segestria senoculata living
    in my back garden walls.
    It took her two days to die. She twitched and shook throughout.
    06.05.2011

    Segestria senoculata
    Back Garden, Brighton
    29/05/2010

    Hove, East Sussex
    25/05/2010

    Back Garden, Brighton
    25/09/2010

    Segestria senoculata
    These two live in very close vicinity of each other by my back door.
    Back Garden, Brighton
    03/11/2010

Unidentified Spiders

    These are Spiders that I have not been able to identify or cannot be sure
    of by using the Collins Guide,

    or am unsure of. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

     Zelotes sp. ?
    Brighton & Preston Cemetery
    05.10.2011

    Unusual Crab Spider
    Thomisidae
    Ozyptila sp. perhaps?
    Brighton, East Sussex
    25.08.11

    My friend Janet Henbane sent me this Photograph of a rather large
    looking Spider that she found in an imported box of Vegetables.
    I sent the image to Peter Harvey of the British Arachnological Society.
    "... may be a large lycosid Lycosa (L. fabrilis is our only British species,
    but it would not be this) or possible a Zoropsis. Either would probably
    originate from southern Europe".

    Living in detritus / leaf litter at the foot of a tree.
    Stoneywish Nature Reserve
    Ditchling, East Sussex
    22.07.2011

    A Peruvian Spider.
    Photo by Robert Manson.
    Sheetweb with a tapered funnel on "a clump of grass-like vegetation.
    It was in Cloud Forest at about 2,700 metres.
    It was about 2 to 3 inches" in size.
    Inca Trail, Winay Wayna, Peru.
    June 2011

    Nesting on a small tree.
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery, East Sussex
    29.06.2011

    Theridion sp. I think
    Same as above, with hatched Spiderlings.
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    09.07.2011

    I found this Spider living in a long sac,
    under a clump of fallen moss, in the shadow of the
    roots of an upturned tree in the copse along the edge
    of the Heath.
    Kings Standing, Ashdown Forest
    31.05.2011

    Agelenatea redii, or possibly Araneus (Atea) sturmi
    Many thanks to Peter Harvey of the British Arachnological
    Society Spider Recording Scheme for his advice with this Spider.
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    22.03.2011

    Zelotes sp. or Drassyllus pusillus (?)
    Living on a fence-post
    Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, West Sussex
    15.04.2011

    Zelotes sp. or Drassyllus pusillus (?)
    Many thanks to Peter Harvey of the British
    Arachnological Society Spider recording Scheme
    for his help and advice with these Spiders.
    Jevington, East Sussex
    Living on a fence-post around a Horse field.
    25.03.2011     

    Seven Sisters Cliffs
    Cuckmere Haven
    East Sussex
    14.02.2011     

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    20/10/2010 

    Comb Footed Spider?
    Dulwich, London
    18/08/2010

    Bathroom dweller
    01/11/2010  

    Lullington Heath, East Sussex
    08/06/2010

    Theridion sp. (?)
    Indoors
    Brighton

    14/11/2010