Arachnerds

Friday, 29 April 2011

Garden Centre Spider - Uloborus plumipes

    Uloborus plumipes
    Family - Uloboridae
Genus - Uloborus
Also known as Feather-Legged Lace Weaver / Hothouse Featherleg.
    These Spiders hang upside down in their horizontal webs.
    From Asia & Africa.
    Uloborus plumipes is one of few spiders that don't have venom to
    inject to kill its prey.

    Wyevale Garden Centre
    Brighton, East Sussex
    29.03.12

Wyevale garden Centre
Brighton
03.10.2011

    Wyevale garden Centre
    Brighton
    28.04.2011

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Coelotes sp.

    Family - Amaurobiidae used to be Agelenidae
    Genus - Coelotes
Many thanks to Gary Bradley of Uksafari.com
    for forwarding my photo's to Ian Dawson of the
    British Arachnological Society.
    Many thanks to Ian for sharing his knowledge:-
    "This is a Coelotes sp., either C. atropos or C. terrestris, depending on
    where it was found. The female remains with her eggsac until she
    dies, the young spiderlings feeding on her body."

Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, West Sussex
15.04.2011

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Agalenatea redii

Family - Araneidae
Genus - Agalenatea
Thanks to Gary Bradley of UKsafari.com for helping to Id.

    Kingley Vale Nature Reserve
    West Sussex
    15.04.2011

    Agalenatea redii

    Lullington Heath
    Jevington, East Sussex
    25.03.2011

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Horse Head Spider - Stemonyphantes lineatus

    Family - Linyphiidae
    Genus - Stemonyphantes
    Single Northern European Species.

Stemonyphantes lineatus
Living under a lone rock
    Southerham, Lewes, East Sussex
    15.03.2011
    Thanks to Gary Bradley of uksafari.com for id.

    Approaching Mount Caburn
    Nr. Lewes
    East Sussex
    04.10.2011

Spiny-leg Spider - Zora spinimana

Family - Zoridae
Genus - Zora

    Zora spinimana
    Living under a lone chunk of chalk on the edge of a field.
    Stanmer 28.03.2011
    Thanks to Gary Bradley of uksafari.com for id.

    '..almost certainly Zora spinimana' - Peter Harvey - BAS
    King's Standing
    Ashdown Forest
    East Sussex
    22.09.2011

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Silk Cell Spiders - Clubiona sp.

    Family - Clubionidae
    Genus - Clubiona
    Found under bark and stones.

Tubular retreat.

Many thanks to Debz Lewis for allowing this Spider to sit on her hand.

    Male
    C. corticalis judging by the Palps (?)
    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton
    04.04.12

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
09.02.2011

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

18.02.2011

Juvenile (?)

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

25/10/2010

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Daddy Long Legs Spider - Pholcus phalangioides

    Family - Pholcidae
    Genus - Pholcus
    Also known as Cellar or Skull Spiders.
    These Spiders hang upside down in their webs in rooms or cellars.
    I live in a basement flat, they live above my front door and under
    my bathroom sink.
    They shake very fast in their webs if disturbed, to deter predators.
They may look fragile but they can take out large Tegenaria sp.