Tylan Berry
@tylanberry.bsky.social
Spiders. It's all about the spiders.
Cornwall, UK 〓〓
Cornwall, UK 〓〓
The seven year old in me still gets excited when I go to Bristol, whatever the nature of the visit. There's always time to stop to play with Segestria florentina! @britishspiders.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The seven year old in me still gets excited when I go to Bristol, whatever the nature of the visit. There's always time to stop to play with Segestria florentina! @britishspiders.bsky.social
Great to see Steatoda albomaculata at long last, in high numbers too. Interesting that it doesn't seem to want to move far, a bit like Asagena phalerata which it was alongside. The webs are brilliant, a typical Theridiid snare underneath very low vegetation over sand @britishspiders.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Great to see Steatoda albomaculata at long last, in high numbers too. Interesting that it doesn't seem to want to move far, a bit like Asagena phalerata which it was alongside. The webs are brilliant, a typical Theridiid snare underneath very low vegetation over sand @britishspiders.bsky.social
I've forgotten how satisfying it is putting similar species side by side this way! The undersides of male Zora armillata (above) and spinimana (below), with their respective palps. Nice to compare the coxae of legs4 - the "brillo pad" of hairs in Z. spinimana is clear. @britishspiders.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I've forgotten how satisfying it is putting similar species side by side this way! The undersides of male Zora armillata (above) and spinimana (below), with their respective palps. Nice to compare the coxae of legs4 - the "brillo pad" of hairs in Z. spinimana is clear. @britishspiders.bsky.social
I knew I Zora difference!!
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I knew I Zora difference!!
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
How ridiculoudly satisfying to see pics of all four of these species together. Clockwise from top left - armillata, spinimana, silvestris, nemoralis. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social
Really awesome to see an adult male of the rare Glyphesis servulus in Cambridgeshire recently. A right whopper at 1mm! 😁 @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Really awesome to see an adult male of the rare Glyphesis servulus in Cambridgeshire recently. A right whopper at 1mm! 😁 @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
A random encounter at a refurbished farmhouse - I wondered what this little orange blob moving slowly across the floor was. As soon as I saw the distinctive dash, the game was up! Oonops domesticus, new to the Lizard Peninsula @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A random encounter at a refurbished farmhouse - I wondered what this little orange blob moving slowly across the floor was. As soon as I saw the distinctive dash, the game was up! Oonops domesticus, new to the Lizard Peninsula @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
The smallest Araneus diadematus web from an adult female that I've ever seen. Can't tell where the hub ends and the capture threads begin! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The smallest Araneus diadematus web from an adult female that I've ever seen. Can't tell where the hub ends and the capture threads begin! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
Getting out of the car in Camborne:
Cake collection....3 minutes.
Badumna longinqua count....5
It's as easy as...errrm...cake?
@britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @chalkspring.bsky.social
Cake collection....3 minutes.
Badumna longinqua count....5
It's as easy as...errrm...cake?
@britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @chalkspring.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Getting out of the car in Camborne:
Cake collection....3 minutes.
Badumna longinqua count....5
It's as easy as...errrm...cake?
@britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @chalkspring.bsky.social
Cake collection....3 minutes.
Badumna longinqua count....5
It's as easy as...errrm...cake?
@britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @chalkspring.bsky.social
Surprised to see adult Pirata last week, amazed that it's P. tenuitarsis! Same reserve as the last time I saw it 3years ago, but an isolated Sphagnum mire at the other end of the very well worked site. Incredibly localised species. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Surprised to see adult Pirata last week, amazed that it's P. tenuitarsis! Same reserve as the last time I saw it 3years ago, but an isolated Sphagnum mire at the other end of the very well worked site. Incredibly localised species. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
Good to finally get across to the border and do a bit of conifer wood bashing in Devon. Didn't take me long to find the mossy habitat for Centromerus serratus. It was accompanied by the usual Saaristoa firma and Porrhomma pallidum. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Good to finally get across to the border and do a bit of conifer wood bashing in Devon. Didn't take me long to find the mossy habitat for Centromerus serratus. It was accompanied by the usual Saaristoa firma and Porrhomma pallidum. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
No luck for any of them at the Fresh West dunes last week. Good to see Attulus saltator is still there. Loads of Great Green Bushies too.
August 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
No luck for any of them at the Fresh West dunes last week. Good to see Attulus saltator is still there. Loads of Great Green Bushies too.
Always keep your eye out for collections of dirt hanging in mid air at the base of walls, particularly where you see Lasius niger marching in lines. Note the thick support threads and longer, hollow retreat structure - this is no Cryptachaea blattea, this is C. riparia! @britishspiders.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Always keep your eye out for collections of dirt hanging in mid air at the base of walls, particularly where you see Lasius niger marching in lines. Note the thick support threads and longer, hollow retreat structure - this is no Cryptachaea blattea, this is C. riparia! @britishspiders.bsky.social
Not what I expected to see in a bit of slightly ranker maritime grassland overlooking the marvellous Penhale Sands. This Argiope bruennichi has chosen its view well! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Not what I expected to see in a bit of slightly ranker maritime grassland overlooking the marvellous Penhale Sands. This Argiope bruennichi has chosen its view well! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
Choughs over Kynance is always a rather lovely sight...even if they are pulling Atypus affinis webs out of the ground and eating the residents. This silk purse web was lying loose on the ground, looking like a cracked egg in the wake of a good marauding. Clever corvids! @britishspiders.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Choughs over Kynance is always a rather lovely sight...even if they are pulling Atypus affinis webs out of the ground and eating the residents. This silk purse web was lying loose on the ground, looking like a cracked egg in the wake of a good marauding. Clever corvids! @britishspiders.bsky.social
This liny was sieved from riverine litter from a shaded and dark wooded river valley on Dartmoor. I was rather intrigued as to what it could be...weirdly, it's Mermessus trilobatus. More weirdly, why are it's eyes massive!?! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This liny was sieved from riverine litter from a shaded and dark wooded river valley on Dartmoor. I was rather intrigued as to what it could be...weirdly, it's Mermessus trilobatus. More weirdly, why are it's eyes massive!?! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
Very few spiders left of the cliffs at the moment, everything has vanished now. Nice to see this little Liny on some precarious cliff edges in North Cornwall yesterday though. Micrargus laudatus, not one that crops up too often. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Very few spiders left of the cliffs at the moment, everything has vanished now. Nice to see this little Liny on some precarious cliff edges in North Cornwall yesterday though. Micrargus laudatus, not one that crops up too often. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
I mean, you have to be a bit of a bumbling fool to get caught by a Pisaura mirabilis guarding her eggs. I suppose Rhagonycha fulva fits that bill perfectly! @britishspiders.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I mean, you have to be a bit of a bumbling fool to get caught by a Pisaura mirabilis guarding her eggs. I suppose Rhagonycha fulva fits that bill perfectly! @britishspiders.bsky.social
A stare off between Talavera aequipes and me. It's very rare that these little things give me an opportunity to photograph them. This ~2mm male was unusually happy to oblige me! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A stare off between Talavera aequipes and me. It's very rare that these little things give me an opportunity to photograph them. This ~2mm male was unusually happy to oblige me! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social
Great to see Theridiosoma gemmosum in its web which is strung across a hoof print at some wet heath in Devon. I'm amazed it let me get so close, they normally drop out of the web in an instant! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Great to see Theridiosoma gemmosum in its web which is strung across a hoof print at some wet heath in Devon. I'm amazed it let me get so close, they normally drop out of the web in an instant! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
Some more special spiders from under stones on the Dorset cliffs - Gnaphosa lugubris and an absolute tank of a Phaeocedus braccatus. Interesting how the fauna on the limestone differs to the granite that I'm used to in Cornwall. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
June 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some more special spiders from under stones on the Dorset cliffs - Gnaphosa lugubris and an absolute tank of a Phaeocedus braccatus. Interesting how the fauna on the limestone differs to the granite that I'm used to in Cornwall. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
Oh look, what do we have here - funny little egg sacs again under stones on the cliffs, this time in Dorset. Yep, Micaria albovittata again! @britishspiders.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Oh look, what do we have here - funny little egg sacs again under stones on the cliffs, this time in Dorset. Yep, Micaria albovittata again! @britishspiders.bsky.social
When I saw these little flat topped, saucer like egg sacs on the south Devon cliffs, I knew exactly what the culprit was. Took me a while to find the beasty though! The rather rare Micaria albovittata- a new site and hectad for it. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When I saw these little flat topped, saucer like egg sacs on the south Devon cliffs, I knew exactly what the culprit was. Took me a while to find the beasty though! The rather rare Micaria albovittata- a new site and hectad for it. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
Also nice to see a few other species in my garden recently that I don't often see elsewhere in Cornwall - Clubiona pallidula, Ero aphana and Parasteatoda simulans. Amazing the power that an unkempt garden can have for inverts! @britishspiders.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Also nice to see a few other species in my garden recently that I don't often see elsewhere in Cornwall - Clubiona pallidula, Ero aphana and Parasteatoda simulans. Amazing the power that an unkempt garden can have for inverts! @britishspiders.bsky.social
Really great to see Entelecara acuminata in the garden again, I've not seen it for a while. It's quite incredible that I've never picked it up anywhere in the southwest outside of my garden. A true broadleaf garden shrub species! @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
May 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Really great to see Entelecara acuminata in the garden again, I've not seen it for a while. It's quite incredible that I've never picked it up anywhere in the southwest outside of my garden. A true broadleaf garden shrub species! @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
This little Sphagnum flush under a small patch of woodland in north Cornwall has given Maro minutus (pictured), Gongylidiellum murcidum and Porrhomma oblitum. All in the same sample!! Not bad for an unassuming wet patch! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This little Sphagnum flush under a small patch of woodland in north Cornwall has given Maro minutus (pictured), Gongylidiellum murcidum and Porrhomma oblitum. All in the same sample!! Not bad for an unassuming wet patch! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social