Tegwyn
@arachnoteg.bsky.social
Always spider spotting!
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales🏴
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales🏴
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Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
January 9, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
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A 2-year long project which seems to have reached some semblance of fruition - cataloguing all the species I've photographed (properly). c. 600 of the 800 odd species on this site are spiders, of which over 100 are Linyphiids!
@britishspiders.bsky.social
A 2-year long project which seems to have reached some semblance of fruition - cataloguing all the species I've photographed (properly). c. 600 of the 800 odd species on this site are spiders, of which over 100 are Linyphiids!
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Spiders
MY SITE
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January 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
snake-spider-et-al.weebly.com/spiders.html
A 2-year long project which seems to have reached some semblance of fruition - cataloguing all the species I've photographed (properly). c. 600 of the 800 odd species on this site are spiders, of which over 100 are Linyphiids!
@britishspiders.bsky.social
A 2-year long project which seems to have reached some semblance of fruition - cataloguing all the species I've photographed (properly). c. 600 of the 800 odd species on this site are spiders, of which over 100 are Linyphiids!
@britishspiders.bsky.social
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My top ten highlights of 2025! What a difficult year it was to rank these, there were so many amazing moments!
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-t...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-t...
January 1, 2026 at 9:12 AM
My top ten highlights of 2025! What a difficult year it was to rank these, there were so many amazing moments!
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-t...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-t...
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You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist!
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist!
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
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Thanks to @ajcann.bsky.social for this commentary the new British spider checklist published in our journal Arachnology and available free to our members and via @bioone.bsky.social
The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland: 2025 checklist
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
#Arachnids #Spiders
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
#Arachnids #Spiders
The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland: 2025 checklist
Maintaining a national checklist for a taxon as large as spiders is a monumental task and Alastair Lavery has again updated the UK list, las...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Thanks to @ajcann.bsky.social for this commentary the new British spider checklist published in our journal Arachnology and available free to our members and via @bioone.bsky.social
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A few from last weekend in West Sussex. Walckenaeria cucullata, Centromerus serratus and Cicurina cicur.
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#spiders #sussex
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#spiders #sussex
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A few from last weekend in West Sussex. Walckenaeria cucullata, Centromerus serratus and Cicurina cicur.
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#spiders #sussex
@britishspiders.bsky.social
#spiders #sussex
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From the Met's Peruvian nose ornament in gold wire (200 BCE–300 CE), to the #Medieval stained glass wren with spider at York Minster, the classic 1913 Arthur Rackham illustration of Miss Muffet and the golden cape of #Nephila silk, #spiders and their artistry continue to inspire great art.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Bah, Humbug!
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
December 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Bah, Humbug!
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Came across this video recently, really interesting. Recommend watching it. Also lots of other (non UK) spider videos on the channel.
youtu.be/JD02xIUkBpg?...
youtu.be/JD02xIUkBpg?...
Every Arachnid on Earth (are they in YOUR backyard?)
YouTube video by MyWildBackyard
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Came across this video recently, really interesting. Recommend watching it. Also lots of other (non UK) spider videos on the channel.
youtu.be/JD02xIUkBpg?...
youtu.be/JD02xIUkBpg?...
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Silky and smart, the Mouse Spider Scotophaeus blackwalli is widely distributed but largely confined to houses and outbuildings in Britain. It can be found as adults year round.
December 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Silky and smart, the Mouse Spider Scotophaeus blackwalli is widely distributed but largely confined to houses and outbuildings in Britain. It can be found as adults year round.
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Not #spiders but #Pseudoscorpions, mini-marvels of the #arachnid world. For more information on their quirky lives, see our factsheet 8 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
December 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Not #spiders but #Pseudoscorpions, mini-marvels of the #arachnid world. For more information on their quirky lives, see our factsheet 8 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
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Ho ho ho! A Christmas Jumper
The newest spider to be recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland has got its Christmas jumper on.
Learn more: www.naturespot.org/species/phil...
(although it was actually recorded in June!)
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
The newest spider to be recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland has got its Christmas jumper on.
Learn more: www.naturespot.org/species/phil...
(although it was actually recorded in June!)
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ho ho ho! A Christmas Jumper
The newest spider to be recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland has got its Christmas jumper on.
Learn more: www.naturespot.org/species/phil...
(although it was actually recorded in June!)
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
The newest spider to be recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland has got its Christmas jumper on.
Learn more: www.naturespot.org/species/phil...
(although it was actually recorded in June!)
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
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Some genera of Money #spiders Linyphyiidae are present as adults throughout the year, often with peak male activity in the #winter months (see chart for Walckenaeria acuminata). Whatever the weather, it's a good time to be out looking for them and their wonderfully distinctive headgear! #Christmas
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Some genera of Money #spiders Linyphyiidae are present as adults throughout the year, often with peak male activity in the #winter months (see chart for Walckenaeria acuminata). Whatever the weather, it's a good time to be out looking for them and their wonderfully distinctive headgear! #Christmas
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The silk 'stockings' (AKA 'dirty socks!) of Britain's only (mini & benign) tarantula relative, the Purseweb Spider Atypus affinis trail on the ground and descend to line a burrow to 5cm deep. The spiders grab prey through the stocking wall and emerge only as adult males seeking mates in autumn.
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The silk 'stockings' (AKA 'dirty socks!) of Britain's only (mini & benign) tarantula relative, the Purseweb Spider Atypus affinis trail on the ground and descend to line a burrow to 5cm deep. The spiders grab prey through the stocking wall and emerge only as adult males seeking mates in autumn.
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We'll be running #RecordEveryDayJanuary again in 2026!
Send us a wildlife sighting for each day during Jan and be entered into a prize draw.
Records can be submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk, LERC Wales App: www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app or email to info@sewbrec.org.uk.
Send us a wildlife sighting for each day during Jan and be entered into a prize draw.
Records can be submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk, LERC Wales App: www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app or email to info@sewbrec.org.uk.
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We'll be running #RecordEveryDayJanuary again in 2026!
Send us a wildlife sighting for each day during Jan and be entered into a prize draw.
Records can be submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk, LERC Wales App: www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app or email to info@sewbrec.org.uk.
Send us a wildlife sighting for each day during Jan and be entered into a prize draw.
Records can be submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk, LERC Wales App: www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app or email to info@sewbrec.org.uk.
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Large, robust Wolf spiders, the Trochosa species have a pale median band that, distinctively, incorporates two darker streaks. Trochosa terricola is the most widespread species, occurring in a variety of habitats including gardens - still present at this time of year although very few are adult.
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Large, robust Wolf spiders, the Trochosa species have a pale median band that, distinctively, incorporates two darker streaks. Trochosa terricola is the most widespread species, occurring in a variety of habitats including gardens - still present at this time of year although very few are adult.
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A cubed flat top for this southern Alabama boy.
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A cubed flat top for this southern Alabama boy.
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Great Record on Sunday, Centromerus serratus this record makes two sites now in West Sussex that ive picked this species up.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
#spiders #centromerus
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#spiders #centromerus
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great Record on Sunday, Centromerus serratus this record makes two sites now in West Sussex that ive picked this species up.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
#spiders #centromerus
@britishspiders.bsky.social
#spiders #centromerus
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Spent some of Sunday looking through the wet collection at BENHS HQ. Most specimens from the late 60s and early 70s in great condition! Their members days offer us to look through specimens and utilise brilliant microscopes @britentsoc.bsky.social #arachnids #harvestmen #entomology #invertebrates
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Spent some of Sunday looking through the wet collection at BENHS HQ. Most specimens from the late 60s and early 70s in great condition! Their members days offer us to look through specimens and utilise brilliant microscopes @britentsoc.bsky.social #arachnids #harvestmen #entomology #invertebrates
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Heavy rain kept me indoors today but did give me time to catch up on chores & finish going through yesterday's photos, including another from the park railings, this Platnickina tincta that was prancing about quite happily. #spiders #arachnids
December 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Heavy rain kept me indoors today but did give me time to catch up on chores & finish going through yesterday's photos, including another from the park railings, this Platnickina tincta that was prancing about quite happily. #spiders #arachnids
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The widespread and abundant Harvestman Paroligolophus agrestis is mainly present as adults from late summer through to the end of the year - they're occasionally seen walking on snow! This short-legged species is found in a wide variety of habitats from ground level to the tree canopy.
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The widespread and abundant Harvestman Paroligolophus agrestis is mainly present as adults from late summer through to the end of the year - they're occasionally seen walking on snow! This short-legged species is found in a wide variety of habitats from ground level to the tree canopy.
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In our new paper, co-authored with Krisztián Szabó and @tszuts.bsky.social, we present an integrative taxonomic study of ladybird spiders, and describe seven beautiful new species from Iran:
🔴 Eresus athanatoi — Named after the Persian Immortals, the elite warriors of the Achaemenid army.
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🔴 Eresus athanatoi — Named after the Persian Immortals, the elite warriors of the Achaemenid army.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In our new paper, co-authored with Krisztián Szabó and @tszuts.bsky.social, we present an integrative taxonomic study of ladybird spiders, and describe seven beautiful new species from Iran:
🔴 Eresus athanatoi — Named after the Persian Immortals, the elite warriors of the Achaemenid army.
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🔴 Eresus athanatoi — Named after the Persian Immortals, the elite warriors of the Achaemenid army.
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The webs of winter-active spiders, in all their amazing variety, are spectacularly highlighted by frost, as well as dew. For more information on the types of capture webs constructed by different groups and species of spiders, see our Factsheet 7 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
December 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The webs of winter-active spiders, in all their amazing variety, are spectacularly highlighted by frost, as well as dew. For more information on the types of capture webs constructed by different groups and species of spiders, see our Factsheet 7 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
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We usually showcase the plants, fungi & invertebrates of coal spoil sites - but here’s some of the hidden life too 🐭
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We usually showcase the plants, fungi & invertebrates of coal spoil sites - but here’s some of the hidden life too 🐭
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
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Widespread though generally scare in GB, the orbweb spider Cercidia prominens is sometimes adult in mid-winter as well as having spring and late summer peaks in adult numbers.
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Widespread though generally scare in GB, the orbweb spider Cercidia prominens is sometimes adult in mid-winter as well as having spring and late summer peaks in adult numbers.