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  • Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
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  • Limnephilus sparsus - a caddisfly of woodland streams
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  • Limnephilus centralis - a caddisfly of woodland streams
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  • Window-winged Sedge - Hagenella clathrata
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  • Field Cricket - Gryllus campestris<br />
female
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  • Phaeostigma notata - a snakefly, family Raphidiidae
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  • Black-and-red Froghopper - Cercopis vulnerata
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  • Hairy Rove Beetle - Creophilus maxillosus
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  • Black-tailed Skimmer - Orthetrum cancellatum - female.
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  • Bee-fly - Bombylius major
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  • Catsear Mining-bee - Andrena humilis -  male
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  • Catsear Mining-bee - Andrena humilis - female
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  • Bee-fly - Bombylius major
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Arctosa leopardus - female. A medium sized wolf spider inhabiting the ground layer in a wide range of damp habitats such as saltmarshes, ditch margins, and lowland bogs.
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  • Spined Mason-bee - Osmia spinulosa
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  • Asiatic Honey Bee - Apis cerana
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  • Astata boops - a species of solitary predatory wasp
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  • Red-banded Sand Wasp - Ammophila sabulosa
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  • Red-banded Sand Wasp - Ammophila sabulosa
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  • Violet Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa violacea
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  • Hypsosinga pygmea - female. The commonest Hypsosinga although actually an uncommon spider. It spins its orb web on field layer grasses on heaths and downland.
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  • Weevil Wasp - Cerceris arenaria
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  • Bembix rostrata - a protected species of sand wasp
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  • Fen Mason Wasp - Odynerus simillimus
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  • Fen Mason Wasp - Odynerus simillimus
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  • Fen Mason Wasp - Odynerus simillimus
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius- spiderling nursery
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius - female guarding nursery of spiderlings
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius
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  • Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea
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  • Keeled Skimmer - Orthetrum coerulrum
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  • Cleg-fly - Haematopota pluvialis
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  • Greenbottle - Lucila caesar
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  • Wood Ant - Formica rufa
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  • Bee-fly - Bombylius major
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  • Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
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  • Tetragnatha obtusa - female. Most often found spinning its orb web on the foliage of trees on the edges of woodland. It has a dumpier body than most tetragnatha species.
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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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  • Thanatus striatus - male. Found on or near the ground in open, warm grassy habitats such as dunes and lowland heath.
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  • Ozyptila praticola - female. One of the small Ozyptila crab spiders that inhabit the litter layer but also climb vegetation epecially at night. This species is fairly common in a range of open habitats in southern Britain.
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  • Philodromus albidus - female. Smaller and paler than most other Philodromus species. It hunts on the foliage of woodland trees in southern Britain.
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  • Philodromus dispar - female. Probably the commonest running crab spider in Britain and is found hunting on trees and bushes in gardens, hedgrows and woodlands. The black and white male is distinctive.
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  • Philodromus dispar - male. Probably the commonest running crab spider in Britain and is found hunting on trees and bushes in gardens, hedgrows and woodlands. The black and white male is distinctive.
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  • Heliophanus flavipes - feamle. A common jumping spider in open sunny situations. It hunts on the ground and on low plants.
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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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  • Lathys humilis - female. A tiny spider that is found building tiny mesh webs on the leaves of trees and bushes in southern Britain.
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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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  • Euophrys frontalis - female. Possibly the commonest 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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  • 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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  • Bluebottle - Calliphora erythrocephala
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  • Yellow Dung Fly - Scatophaga stercoraria
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  • Pardosa nigriceps - Male. A common wolf spider in open habitats but is very often found hunting off the ground up in field and scrub layer vegetation.
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  • Tibellus oblongus - Male. Tibellus species are running crab spiders that are 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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  • 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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  • Zora spinimana - Female. A common hunting spider in tussocks of grass in the litter layer and is generally common. The pale brown body matches the colours of dead grass.
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  • Gongylidium rufipes - Female. One of the larger Linyphiid "money spiders"and is very common on trees and bushes where it spins a small hammock web.
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  • Larinioides cornutus - Female. A common spider and is most often found building its orb web on grasses near water.
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  • Clubiona brevipes - Female. Darker in colour than other Clubiona species. It is common as a nocturnal hunter in the woodland canopy and can also be found amongst the leaves of tall shrubs in gardens.
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  • Clubiona phragmitis - Female. Strongly associated with reeds and sedges in wetland areas where it hunts through the foliage.
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  • Signal Crayfish - Pacifastacus leniusculus
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  • Signal Crayfish - Pacifastacus leniusculus
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  • Xysticus cristatus - Male. The commonest of the Crab Spiders. The males are much smaller that the females.
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  • Pardosa saltans - Female. The commonest wolf spider found on sunny areas of the leaf litter in woodlands in southern Britain.
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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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  • Pardosa pullata is a very common wolf spider especially on open tussocky grassland often abundant in damper areas.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Neriene clathrata - Female. A common Linyphiid hammock-web spider found in low undergrowth in a range of habitats.
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  • Amaurobius ferox - Female. Our largest lace web spider found near the ground in darker damp habitats under stones and logs in gardens and woodland
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  • Dark Bush-cricket - Pholidoptera griseoaptera
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  • Marpissa muscosa - Female. Prettily patterned in browns and greys and occurs in warm, sunny, dry dead wood and is flattened as an adaptation to living in crevices and especially under bark on dead branches and trunks. It is one of our largest jumping spiders. The pinkish orange band of hairs beneath the eyes is diagnostic. It is a local southern species Notable B.
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  • Diaea dorsata - Female. A Thomisid crab spider adapted to arboreal life in the canopy of woodlands. It is fairly common in the southern half of Britain.
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  • River Bear-Spider, Arctosa cinerea - Female. On river gravel, West Wales. This largest Wolf spider in Britain and is a local specialist on fast flowing rivers Scotland, Wales and Northern England.
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  • Marble Spider,Araneus marmoreus var pyramidatus (yellow form) Araneidae. Female in retreat in young Oak.
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  • Amaurobius fenestralis - Female. Slightly smaller than but similar to A. similis but usually found away from houses spinning mesh webs in crevices in tree trunks etc.
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  • The orb web of the Common Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) showing close spirals in extensive array
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  • Zygiella atrica - Female on orb web.
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  • Theridion balckwalli - Adult female. Small Theridiid spider. An uncommon species found mainly around buildings.
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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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  • Euphrys frontalis - Male. This is probably the most common jumping spider in the UK. The male has orange eye fringes and white palp flashes as courtship signals.
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  • Evarca arcuata - Female. Salticidae. A species of lowland wet heath.
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  • Araneus quadratus - Orb Web. This spider specialises in large insects in the field especially grasshoppers.
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  • Micaria pulicaria - Male. Gnaphosid Ant Spider. Fast ground living diurnal hunter of open, stony, sunny habitats. Very common.
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  • Purse-Web Spider - Atypus affinis, Atypidae - Female
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  • Amaurobius similis -  female
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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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  • Egg sac of Theridiosoma gemmosum
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  • Trachyzelotes pedestris - Female
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  • Trachyzelotes pedestris - Female
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  • Stag Beetles - Lucanus cervus
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  • Mating Stag Beetles - Lucanus cervus
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  • Puss moth larva Cerura vinula with parsaitoid cocoons of Cotesis affinis
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