Arachnerds: Lace Webbed Spiders

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Lace Webbed Spiders - Amaurobius sp.

    Family - Amaurobiidae
    Genus - Amaurobius
Tubular, lacy bluish web retreat found within walls or bark, which they
    spin at night. The web extends outwardly from the retreat.
    They are also found under logs, stones and detritus / leaf-litter.
    Females are often eaten by their Spiderlings.

Brighton
09.01.12

    Extremely pale Female in her Silk-lined retreat.
    She looks ready to construct her Egg Sac.
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    01.11.2011

Male on the Prowl

Showing his Pedipalps

Brighton
01.11.2011

    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton, East Sussex
    25.10.2011

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
16.08.2011

    Male
    Brighton
    12.10.2011

    Downs Crematorium
    Brighton
    04.04.2011

    Male
    Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve
    West Stoke entrance
    West Sussex
    16.02.2011

    Male
    A bathroom dweller...
    3rd one this year.
    25.02.2011

    Juvenile
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    28.04.2011

    Male
    11/10/2010
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    ..........
    I went Spider hunting with Graeme Lyons of SWT today,
    we were looking for the Purse Web Spider that I had spotted yesterday
    (http://arachnerds.blogspot.com/2010/10/purse-web-spiders.html).
    We went to the very same flint wall that I had seen him on but he
    wasn't around. However, we did find a few other species.
    This being one that Graeme spotted and positively identified
    under the microscope.