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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Yeah was really pleased to find it, i will be sure to try and see if i can find more when im next in that area 👍

James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Quite stop off in the New Forest before heading to Bournemouth, glad i did, not the spider i was looking for, but super happy with this. Dipoena melanogaster Classied as rare and endangered. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #Dipoena

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 26/05/2026

Friday afternoon on Yr Wyddfa yielded Pardosa trailli. Last record at this location was in 1919!! @britishspiders.bsky.social Rest of weekend wiped out by a lurgy 🤧

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Whaaaaaaat!? Another one! Whilst looking for Altella lucida at the CWT Penhale reserve, we spotted three "ants" running incredibly fast across some scree. Nope, not ants, Micaria albovittata! Another clifftop rarity being found new to one of the most worked cliffs here! @britishspiders.bsky.social

No Altella lucida here this year, but the addition of Micaria albovittata to the reserve is amazing. Incredible that I've not seen it before during my many visits here.

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The mythical beast known as Trochosa spinipalpis from a local site (thanks @judywebb.bsky.social). After putting in hundreds of hours looking across southern England, I wasn’t disappointed! They really do look dark, almost earthy in the field. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A regular to my house every year. Found at the weekend Theridion familiare @britishspiders.bsky.social #arachnids #Theridion #spiders

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So not only did i find a new site for Centromerus serratus at the weekend I was gob smacked to also pick up 7 yes 7! female Centromerus brevipalpus!! Good Sussex records! What a day. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #Centromerus #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Two really good records this weekend i will start of with this one, Tapinocyba mitis picked up on the back of a heathland site in West Sussex. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #tapinocyba #arachnids

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

What amazing weather this weekend, I hope everyone has filled it with excellent spiders! A highlight for me was seeing this massive Gnaphosa occidentalis with her invert graveyard - remnants of various beetle elytra, earwigs, other Gnaphosa and even a Dysdera. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Nice to see a couple of these yesterday,a male Walckenaeria atrotibialis. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #walckenaeria #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Walckenaeria atrotibialis becomes the 7th Walck for a wet woodland site i record for and the 114th spider Species for the site. @britishspiders.bsky.social #Walckenaeria #spider #arachnid

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Yeah and they are armoured more if thats the right word the hook shape before the large spine is a give away.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A non native spider that im sure is going to spread found in a Damp woodland in West Sussex, second one ive picked up. Erigone dentosa @britishspiders.bsky.social #erigone #Spiders #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yes on Birch in the damp part of this heathland

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Really glad to catch up with this species again, its been a while since ive picked it up at this site. Philodromus margaritatus @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #Philodromus #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When you see a big female walck in the tray without the raised head turret it only screams one hope, yes a female W.obtusa. From deep in the leaf litter. Have about 4 records for this now never seen the male. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #Walckenaeria

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social Always nice to find a Walck! This female W. vigilax was the very last spider I picked up during a recent excursion; I’ve found it before but this one allowed me to photograph it properly for a change!

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Love a walc, this makes 6 species at the woodland site in Sussex i record for, its Walckenaeria cuspidata. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #uk

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

From a wet woodland in West Sussex, leg spine count indicates Porrhomma oblitum. But to be 100% i will get my county recorder to check the specimen. Appearance looks correct. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Porrhomma species and with the spine count on the legs ive ruled out all of them down to one species, of course this will be sent to my recorder to confirm but im 95% sure. Its Porrhomma cambridgei! A rare beast. From a path in damp woodland. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnid #spider

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

After searching for this spider at other sites and failing to find it, i was glad to pick this male up at the weekend, old records from the site nearly 20 years old. Zelotes electus. @britishspiders.bsky.social #zelotes #spiders #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It gets better i had 2 females in the sample, wet woodland in moss and leaf litter below pines.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A second Important record for West Sussex, I found it last year. And found it again today at a different site. Centromerus cavernarum. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #centromerus #arachnids

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Superb! I really like this species i found them at a second site for Sussex on Christmas eve.

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Another interesting Liny from the dying light of Halvana Plantation of a late afternoon last week. A second Cornish site for Maro minutus. This little 1mm thing is weirdly distinctive in the tray...aided very much by a head torch!! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

But also like you said shame the spiders didnt make maturity.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

At the end of last year i collected a spider i was hoping to raise that all changed when this parasitic fungi took hold of it i suspect gibellula sp. Quite fasinating really. @britishspiders.bsky.social #gibellula #spider

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Honourable mentions (this list was very tough to compile and I feel I need a way to cheat a bit): Clockwise: Gasteracantha doriae, Walckenaeria nodosa, Haplodrassus minor, Walckenaeria corniculans, (thanks @chizz13.bsky.social and @chalkspring.bsky.social)

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

A few from last weekend in West Sussex. Walckenaeria cucullata, Centromerus serratus and Cicurina cicur. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #sussex

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Thanks, its all so fasinating.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I believe so i cannot see an records from that area, @graemelyons.bsky.social will know if its a new hectad record.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

From an ancient beech woodland in West Sussex, its a pig to get to with all the gear, and to date ive never seen much there. But thats has changed samples from the 9th November have produced Centromerus cavernarum!!One i had hoped for there. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

If you like i can try and document it with photos and send in for the BAS news letter if that helps? @britishspiders.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For me which i shared with @chalkspring.bsky.social is i find it in the trenches in woodland where the leaf litter is deep, i then move all the fresh stuff and sieve the well rotted black layer of leaves seems to work well.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I can see an old record for East Sussex in the early 90's. This record is for West Sussex.

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Very nice glad the tip paid off!

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk Really happy to find this spider (another follow-up of Rowley Snazell's old Bucks records). From a site I'd visited previously, but looking at in a new way, thanks to a tip from @chizz13.bsky.social Walckenaeria dysderoides #spiders

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Nice to see this one, its the first time ive seen the male. From a woodland site in Sussex. Pachygnatha listeri. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My 3rd record for Walckenaeria obtusa at this woodland site, all 3 have been in moss under pines, all my W.nudipalpis records from that site are from leaf litter under sweet chestnut trees. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social

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