Textrix denticulata

    Family : Agelenidae
    Genus : Textrix
    My friend Janet Henbane found this handsome Spider in her bath.
    Janet has very kindly allowed me to publish her photograph here.

    Male T. denticulata
    Found near Nenthead, Cumbria
    March 2014
    Photograph copyright Janet Henbane

Diaea dorsata

    Family: Thomisidae 
    Genus : Diaea 
    Females - 6 mm, males - 4 mm
    A new species for me. I happened to look at the underside of a folded, dying  
    Rhododendron leaf, and there he was.
 
    Juvenile male
    Paynes Southdown Bee Farm
    Hassocks, West Sussex
    25.02.14 

Spiders Calendar 2014

    Spiders Calendar 2014

 

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    Female Atypus affinis

    Male Atypus affinis

    Female Salticus scenicus

Spiders of Nashville, Tennessee

    My friend Jacquie Papé Shankster, kindly sent me this photo of a Spider
    she found 'sitting on her dog's toy. Very slow and did not run away!
    It was huge!'   

 
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
18.07.13

Pseudoscorpions

    Order : Pseudoscorpionida / Chelonethida
    Pseudoscorpions are tiny arachnids. The possess no sting. They have large 
    pincers to catch prey, such as clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, 
    booklice, ants, mites, small flies, as well as each other.
    This species, about 2-3mm in size, I found at Bedelands Nature Reserve,
    Burgess Hill.  

   











Neobisium carcinoides - ID by Gerald Legg -
http://www.chelifer.com/pseudos/pseudoscorpions.htm 
Bedelands Nature Reserve
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
03.03.13

     

Episinus angulatus

    Family : Theridiidae
    Genus : Episinus
    These spiders weave very small webs, consisting of just a few strands of silk.
    An uncommon spider, although, I have found three males and two females in
    my garden and inside my flat. Peter Harvey of the British Arachnological 
    Society and the Spider Recording Scheme, ID'd the first, adult male for me,
    and he seems quite amused that I have these spiders in my home!

    Adult male Episinus angulatus
    ID by Peter Harvey BAS
    Brighton
    16.06.13

    Second Adult male Episinus angulatus that I've found on the door to my 
    back garden.
    Brighton, East Sussex
    16.06.13

    Female - found in my living room!
    Brighton, East Sussex
    28.06.13