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Tylan Berry retweeted
29 Nov 2024
For those of you that are also present elsewhere 👇🏻
We intend to remain here on X / Twitter as well, at least whilst there remains interest in arachnids and our posts
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Excellent spiders from @CwallWildlife Cabilla NR - new site and hectad for Philodromus margaritatus and Agyneta innotabilis, new site for Hyptiotes paradoxus, and a 25mile hike west for Trematocephalus cristatus - the 2nd Cornish site for it. @BritishSpiders @cofnod @graemelyons
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Tylan Berry retweeted
30 Oct 2024
Microctenonyx subitaneus (Linyphiidae) next to a Trochosa terricola (Lycosidae) pedipalp :)
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A new species for me Walckenaeria obtusa, I do not see any records for this in west sussex, an old record in east sussex from the late 60's
@BritishSpiders #spiders #arachnid #walckenaeria
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What a Genus!
Here is the nationally Scarce, Walckenaeria dysderoides first one ive seen in west sussex.
@BritishSpiders #spiders #arachnids #uk #walckenaeria
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Tylan Berry retweeted
21 Oct 2024
This glorious specimen came running over as we knelt in the rain on a shingle spit in May. Confirmed today by @cofnod as Gnaphosa lugbris. A ground spider of epic charisma and proportion! @BritishSpiders @BerryTylan @NHarnser @chalkspring
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Zora silvestris, a nationally rare spider with a critically endangered status.
@BritishSpiders #arachnid #uk #zorasilvestris
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Tylan Berry retweeted
18 Oct 2024
A #Suffolk based Autumnal #Spider session for me today. Including the Nationally Scarce Hypsosinga albovitta and the redist Agalentea redii I have ever seen!!! Metellina and Xysticus sp making up the chorus line. @BerryTylan @BritishSpiders @NHarnser
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12 Oct 2024
A brilliant bit of woodland in East Cornwall today gave some really fantastic records. Incredible start - this Philodromus margaritatus was in the second sample of very un-lichen covered oak foliage. Wasn't even the highlight of the day! @BritishSpiders @cofnod @graemelyons
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A firm favorite on mine, Araneus alsine.
Always happy to see these.
@BritishSpiders #arachnids #araneus #spiders #spider
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A new County record 😁
Ive recently got into the microscope work as i wanted to record more spiders as im always out looking for them. But could never ID the Linys so i was blown away with this one.
Walckenaeria capito.
@BritishSpiders #arachnids #spiders #walckenaeria
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Tylan Berry retweeted
8 Oct 2024
8th of #Arachtober
I'm giving a talk on insects this evening. Spiders and insects have an interesting relationship (the spider doesn't always come out on top).
What arachnid/insect interactions have you observed?
ALT A Tegenaria ferruginea spider with a housefly in its jaws. The spider is a pale brown with black annulations on the legs, and the body is slightly smaller than the fly but with the legs it dominates over it.
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Tylan Berry retweeted
These seem to be my most common orb weavers on my lunchtime wander. Wanted to see one for ages And now they are everywhere!!!
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Tylan Berry retweeted
8 Oct 2024
1/2 #speciesaday is Hahnia pusilla. Nationally Scarce. Tiny (c1.5 mm) but NOT a money spider. Mostly found sieving Sphagnum in bogs but I did get it last spring in moss in a chalk quarry. This one yesterday is seemingly new to Ashdown Forest.
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Tylan Berry retweeted
6 Oct 2024
A write up of the 13 spiders I think I had new to jersey (inc. 6 new to the Channel Islands) plus loads more analternativenaturalhistoryo… @AndymarquisH @BritishSpiders @BerryTylan @chalkspring @cofnod
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Tylan Berry retweeted
8 Oct 2024
1/2 #speciesaday no. 425 is Hahnia helveola. A local spider that is most often found in Sphagnum moss but also on heaths, etc. Large than other Hahnias and with a distinct abdominal pattern. This one from Ashdown Forest yesterday.
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4 Oct 2024
This little bliter gets me every time I find it in a mire! It's always a bit different to everything else and looks exciting! Those awesome, pointy papls don't lie though, thus is the rather common Gongylidiellum vivum. @BritishSpiders @cofnod @graemelyons @chalkspring
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Tylan Berry retweeted
3 Oct 2024
1/2 #speciesaday no. 419 is Halorates reprobus. Nationally Scarce. A coastal money spider with few Sussex records. Until this summer, I'd only ever seen it in Sx on the mouth of the Cuckmere but it has colonised the shingle creation/translocation on Brighton beach @BritishSpiders
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23 Sep 2024
Another new site and hectad for Mermessus trilobatus in Cornwall recently, that's two more this year. It's spreading really fast on the South coast. Erigone dentosa has also shown its face again here and seems to be following suit! @BritishSpiders @cofnod @graemelyons
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Tylan Berry retweeted
18 Sep 2024
1/2 #speciesaday no. 403 is Ozyptila sanctuaria. Our smallest crab. Males are very common from August and peaking around Sep in open grassland. Females go on for longer and into next year (they are paler and larger, like this image). Almost entirely found by suction.
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