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  • Lepthyphantes tenius - female. This species is a very common hammock web builder in undergrowth in all sorts of lowland habitats.
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  • Pardosa saltans - Male. The commonest wolf spider found on sunny areas of the leaf litter in woodlands in southern Britain. The male is active in spring and early summer.
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  • Steatoda grossa - female. With its dark, shiny, globular body is  the most Black Widow-like of our false widow spiders and it is common in dark corners of houses and outbuildings in southern Britain. The young female spiders have clear pale forward-pointing chevrons on the dark abdomen which fade as they get larger but are usually still just visible. The spider can deliver a nip but does not have the reputation for causing pain as has Steatoda nobilis.
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  • Strawberry Spider - Araneus alsine, Araneidae. Very local spider of wet heathland and woodland rides.
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  • Pompilus cinereus attacking Arctosa perita. A spider hunting wasp paralyses a Sand Dune Bear-Spider spider on sand dunes.
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  • Agroeca inopina, Liocranidae. Female. Ground living nocturnal hunting spider. Warm, dry places eg dunes.
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  • Comb-footed Spider - Enoplognatha ovata - with Damselfly prey.
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  • Common Labyrinth Spider - Agelena labyrinthica
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  • Purse Web Spider - Atypus affinis
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  • harvestman with mites<br />
Mitopus morio
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  • Water Spider - Argyroneta aquatica
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  • Heliophanus cupreus - Male. One of the two common mainly black Heliophanus jumping spiders found in sunny places hunting on the ground or on low plants.
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  • Araneus quadratus - Orb Web. This spider specialises in large insects in the field especially grasshoppers.
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  • Stemonyphantes lineatus. Linyphiidae. Female. Common species low amongst grass in open habitats such as dunes, wasteland, downs hedge bottoms, gardens etc.
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  • Spiders Web on Autumn Morning
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  • Trichopterna cito - male. A very rare RDB2 spider that only occurs in a few coastal locations in South East England on dunes and shingle.
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  • Tibellus oblongus - female. A species of running crab spider that is adapted to life in grass tussocks. Their long bodies can lie along leaves and stems so that the spiders are hard to sdetect.  Tibellus oblongus is the commoner of the two species in the UK ocurring in all sorts of open tussocky habitats.
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  • Nigma puella -female. A small but prettily marked spider that builds mesh webs on the upper surface of leaves of bushes and trees. It is a local species only occurring in southern Britain.
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  • Araneus angulatus - female. A large summer maturing orb buider that is uncommon in the south of the UK. It builds orb webs in scrub and woodland. Often the webs are high up and strung across large gaps in the vegetation canopy.
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  • Arctosa perita - female. A specialist burrowing wolf spider found on sand dunes and other sandy habitats such as heaths and even spoil heaps. It is superbly camouflaged to match the open sand in its habitat.
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  • Ballus chalybeius - female. A squat little woodland jumping spider that hunts on the foliage of trees especially Oak.
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  • Philodromus fallax - Female. A remarkable running crab spider that is adaped perfectly to life on mobile sand on dunes. It is almost invisible on bare sand in habitat.
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  • Zelotes apricorum - Female. One of our all-black Zelotes species with a patchy distribution but mostly occurring on the ground in dry open habitats. They move very fast and are hard to catch.
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  • Daddy Longlegs Spider - Pholcus phalangoides - Male. The common "Daddy Long Legs" spider found indoors in the southern half of Britain.
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  • Tegenaria silvestris - Female. Found with it's sheet web on forest floor and under stones. It is a small delicate version of the large "House Spider"
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  • River Ystwyth, Ceredigion, with well developed shingle banks. Habitat of Arctosa cinerea. Some of the Rivers in Mid and North Wales have well developed shingle banks that support  populations of rare, specially adapted, invertebrates including the large River Bear-Spider Arctosa cinera
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  • Philodromus fallax (Philodromodae) - Female. Demonstrating very cryptic colouration on sand. Yellow and fore dune specialist.
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  • Neriene peltata. Liyphiid spider in hammock web in tree in woodland.
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  • Common Garden Spider - Araneus diadematus. Orb web showing close spirals in extensive array.
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  • Wasp Spider - Argiope bruennichi - Female. Now frequent in southern counties of Britain on grassland in brown field sites, heathland, road verges, and coastal grassland.
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  • Cicurina cicur, Dictynidae - Female. Our largest Dyctinid at about 8mm. This spider is a local species rather uncommon and found in cool darl damp locations such as under logs iun woodland or in caves.
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  • Myrmarachne formicaria - Salticidae - Male - Myrmarachne formicaria
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  • Daddy Longlegs Spider - Pholcus phalangoides
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  • Crab Spider - Misumena vatia - with Meadow Brown
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  • False Scorpion - order Pseudoscorpionida
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  • Common Cross Spider - Araneus quadratus
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  • Ladybird Spider - Eresus niger
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  • Ladybird Spider - Eresus niger
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  • Common Cross Spider - Araneus quadratus
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  • Common Cross Spider - Araneus quadratus
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  • Hammock Web Spider
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  • Pellenes tripunctatus - male. A jumping spider that is very rare (RDB1) in Britain. It only occurs on a few coastal shingle sites along the South Coast.
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  • Palpimanus gibbulus - female. Has recently become well know as a very spider-hunting spider that can kill other fierce ground living spiders as large as itself. It has a very tough integument that resists the bite of its prey.
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  • The Mediterranean Scorpion - Mesobuthus gibbosus. Common under stones usually in drier habitats in the Eastern Mediterranean. Like all buthid scorpions they should be treated with caution as they have a potent sting.
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  • Oonops domesticus - female. A tiny spider that can be found in houses but also outdoors under bark and in leaf litter. It is often found living in the webs of larger spiders.
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  • Drapetisca socialis - female. An unusual linyphiid species adapted to life on the vertical surfaces of tree trunks in sheltered woods. It is easiest to find on Beech trees in the late summer and autumn.
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  • Clubiona neglecta - female. A fairly common spider in open habitats such as dunes, It is a nocturnal hunter being spun up in a cell during the day.
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius - unstriped adult female
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius
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  • Tetragnatha montana - feamle. Not so tied to wet habitats as T. extensa. It is locally common and found building orb webs in bushes and trees.
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  • Xysticus kochi - female. A large crab spider found in open dry habitats. It is very similar to the commoner Xysticus cristatus but tends to be darker in colour.
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  • Herpyllus blackwalli - female. Common inside houses and is most often seen hunting on walls and ceilings at night.
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  • Euophrys frontalis is possibly the commonst jumping spider in Britain but is not often noticed. It is found at ground level in all sorts of open sunny habitats.
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  • Gibbaranea gibbosa - female. Cryptic in colour and behaviour but is found frequently in southern Britain on trees and bushes. It is by far the commonest two humped orb web spinner.
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  • Buzzing spider - Anyphaena accentuata - female. Found in the trees and shrubs in woodland hunting at night amongst the foliage. It is widespread in southern Britain. The male vibrates his abdomen during courtship making a buzzing sound.
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  • Pardosa monticola - Female. A wolf spider typical of open dry grassland habitats on  dunes, downland and heath. It is local but often abundant where it occurs.
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  • Gibbaranea gibbosa - Female. Cryptic in colour and behaviour but is found frequently in southern Britain on trees and bushes. It is by far the commonest two humped orb web spinner.
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  • Drassodes cupreus - Male. A large nocturnal ground-living hunting spider. It is common on heaths and dry grasslands as well as in gardens.
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  • Pardosa saltans - Male. The commonest wolf spider found on sunny areas of the leaf litter in woodlands in southern Britain. The male is active in spring and early summer.
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  • Crustulina sticta - Female. Crustulinas are very small spiders that build an insubstantial scaffold webs very low in vegetation. They have a warty cephalothorax.  C. sticta is found in moist habitats but is uncommon and is Notable b.
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  • Clubiona comta - Female. A smaller spider than Clubiona corticalis but has a similar dark pattern on the abdomen. It is a common spider living in leaf litter and in trees and bushes hunting through the vegetation at night.
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  • Segestria florentina - Female. Our largest Segestriid and only found locally in southern Britain. It lives in silk tubes in walls and it's large size and iridescent green jaws are intimidating.
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  • Myrmarachne formicaria. Salticidae. Ant mimic jumpin spider. Male has very large chelicerae for display and fighting other males. Rare on coastal shingle, grassland cliff bases and wetland mires.
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  • Evarca arcuata - Two males sparring over female spun up in leaf. Salticidae. A species of lowland wet heath.
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  • Trachyzelotes pedestris - Female
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  • Trachyzelotes pedestris - Female
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  • Spider  Araneus marmoreus Var. pyramidatus
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  • SPIDER Araneus marmoreus Var. pyramidatus
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  • Orb-web Spider - Zygiella x-notata - with damselfly prey
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  • Crab Spider - Xysticus cristatus - with ladybird prey
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  • Cucumber Green Orb spider - Araniella curcurbitina
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  • EUTROMBIDIUM SP<br />
red velvet mite
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  • False Scorpion - order Pseudoscorpiones
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  • Araneus marmoratus pyramidatus
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  • Araneus marmoratus pyramidatus
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  • Tick - Acarina
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  • Tick - Acarina
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  • Garden Spider In Web - Araneus diadematus
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  • Gorse Spider Mite - Tetranychus lintearius
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  • SPIDER'S WEB
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  • Red Spider Mite - Tetranychus urticae
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  • Raft Spider - Dolomedes fimbriatus
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius- spiderling nursery
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  • Xysticus lanio - Male. This species of Xysticus crab spider is unusual in that it is found most frequently in the canopy foilage od woodland trees. It is typically a more dark reddish spider than othe Xysticus species
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  • Neriene peltata - Female. A Linyphyid hammock- weaver that constructs webs in trees and tall bushes in woodland.
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  • Dysdera erythrina - Female. A methodical nocturnal hunter with huge fangs found in natural coastal and heathland habitats and is a little smaller and darker than the almost identical but more common Dydera crocata.
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  • Micrommata virescens - Female. Our only Sparassid and is found amongst grass or sedge tussocks on wet heaths or woodland edge.
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  • Zygiella atrica - Female on orb web.
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  • Purse-Web Spider - Atypus affinis, Atypidae - Female
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  • Tetragnatha extensa<br />
with damselfly prey
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  • FALSE SCORPION
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  • Cave Spider - Meta menardi
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  • Steatoda grossa - female. Steatoda grossa with its dark, shiny, globular body is  the most Black Widow-like of our false widdow spiders and it is common in dark corners of houses and outbuildingsin southern Britain. The young female spiders have clear pale forward-pointing chevrons on the dark abdomen which fade as they get larger but are usually still just visible. The spider can deliver a nip but does not have the reputation for causing pain as has Steatoda nobilis.
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  • Pellenes tripunctatus - female. A jumping spider that is very rare (RDB1) in Britain. It only occurs on a few coastal shingle sites along the South Coast.
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  • Flower Crab Spider - Misumena vatia
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  • Pardosa palustris - female with egg sac. A common wolf spider found hunting on the ground in arable fields and other more natural, open, grassy habitats.
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  • Pelecopsis nemoraloides - male. This little money spider is confined to coastal habitats such as dunes and spiins a small sheet web in the litter layer.
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  • Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula - Lasiodora parahybana
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  • Bathyphantes gracilis - female. Abundant everywhere in grass and undergrowth, this small spider builds a hammock web, usually close to the ground.
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius- spiderling nursery
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