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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the most incredible photos I have ever been sent, courtesy of Chloë James of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Seagrass Restoration Team. Yep, that's Philodromus margaritatus...under seawater using...an air bubble to breathe and move about. I am utterly speechless!! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tapinesthis inermis(?) from a wildlife garden in Oxfordshire - knew it was something weird in the field with its almost purplish colour and spineless legs. First for the UK if confirmed! @britishspiders.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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Fin Roe @finroe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Amazing first day in Dorset with two Nationally Rare megas of the spider world found - Gnaphosa lugubris and Trochosa robusta.

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk A quick stop-off in Wales, to find a spider that I've yet to see in England. It always surprises me just how well such a big spider can 'hide in plain sight' on bare stone Arctosa cinerea is always a sight to behold

A large spider camouflaged amongst stones revealed by reduced water levels on the river

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Thomas Miller @tmbirding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Despite having done my PhD on spider vibration sensing I confess I haven't exactly developed my ID skills for British spiders - nonetheless I did recognise this as something interesting today when it jumped onto my leg whilst birding from the garden terrace at the Life and Mind Building, Oxford 1/2

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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#spidereggsac2026 It's tough being a black widow spider, you're just doting on your egg sac day in, day out, then a centipede comes along to cause trouble. Fastest I've seen her move the egg sac out of the nest/hole. She's really doing a great job protecting her egg sac.

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was visited by an angel

A photo of a very very small snake in the palm of the artist's hand. The snake is about the size of a q-tip, maybe even smaller, and brown with dark black species and a warm yellow underbelly. The snake is looking at the camera with one cute eye.

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s getting hard to ignore the (honestly appalling) number of comments implying that this finding should be another reason to not-so-subtly suggest that spiders deserve to be terminated in any number of grisly ways. (1/6)

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A female Wagler’s Pit Viper in position over a fig, patiently waiting for a hungry fruit bat to come to close

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amyb @itsamusred.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This little rat snake was in a place where our curious neighbors' cats might find it so I moved it closer to the marsh where there's more fallen leaves and thick foliage for protection. #nature

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So true 🤣 #BookSky

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A Mexican Black-headed Snake (Tantilla atriceps) from Nuevo León, Mexico. Tantilla is a group of 60+ species ranging from North America to South America. These small snakes are nocturnal, and feed upon centipedes, scorpions, spiders, and other invertebrates. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

An angled-down image of a small snake, body in loose serpentine curves, with the neck and head off the ground and facing right. The snake's body color is a light brown, with no other markings on the body. The upper surface of the head features a black 'cap' which runs from the neck to the nose, with a small strip of white between the black cap and the brown body. The lower head and jaw is brown.

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David Minshall @dbminshall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi). Several were found in their orb-webs amongst long grass at Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve (15.07.26). Their black and yellow wasp-like markings will be a good deterrent to predators! #Invertebrate #bugsky #ukwildlife @britishspiders.bsky.social

A Wasp Spider with its bright black and yellow abdomen and stripped legs. First recorded in Britain in 1922, and slowly spreading northwards

A predator's view - looking down on the bright abdomen, which mimics a wasp

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm heading back to Ecuador and one of the species I'm hoping to see again is Hapalopus planetearth, a small tarantula that was only formally described last year and we know very little of. This species is now commonly called Ecuadorian crowned tarantula, a name that does its beauty justice!

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A stunning little Wagler’s Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri) for #WorldSnakeDay

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Rory @norwichgiant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Today I witnessed a labyrinth spider (Agelena labyrinthica) catching its lunch (a candy stripe spider, Enoplognatha ovata) It's been a great year for the labyrinths in my area, almost every roadside hedge is peppered with their enormous webs. @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #bugsky

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Spiders, as usual, continue to amaze. Head to biorxiv to read our preprint!

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🧵1/2 I was digging photos out of archive backups for someone and came across these - an Isla Santa Catalina Rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis), from my 1st visit to the island in 2013. This species is unique in that it does not have a rattle. #herps #snakes #rattlesnakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

Angled-down side image of a rattlesnake in a loose, oval coil, head pointing to the left, tail (without a rattle) to the right. The snake's ground color is a white tinged with light brown, and there are a series of faded blotches of a darker brown running down the body.

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Doc @mphiuma.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I was very exited to see a Long-nosed Snake because they do not occur east of Texas. I also quickly learned they have the curious defense of expelling blood and mucus from their cloaca. #herps

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The Orianne Society @oriannesociety.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are thrilled to see #EasternIndigoSnake #conservation featured in the latest issue of Garden & Gun Magazine! Raising awareness about conservation in the Southeast is more important than ever, and...

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Common water #snake - Nerodia sipedon (Shot near Cincinnati 4-6-26) 🐍 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #reptile #herping

A common water snake (Nerodia sipedon) relaxed on a pile of leaves with their head in the middle of the frame and looped around by their body.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A Keeled Slug Snake (Pareas carinatus), poking around in the vegetation in search of a slug dinner (slimy yet satisfying). Peninsular Thailand, 2023. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

Side image of a snake, facing left and emerging from behind a bright green leaf. Only the head, neck, and a few inches of the body are visible. The snake's ground color is a golden yellow, overlaid with small yellowish-brown blotches. The snake's eye is proportionally large,; the iris is orangish-gold and the pupil is vertically elliptical.

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plesnercph🇩🇰 @plesnercph.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🐍Eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii). Max size males 69 cm (27"), females 82 cm (32.3"). Very variable in colour. Eats birds, frogs, lizards and rodents. Found from southern Mexico down to Peru and Venezuela. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by the Smithsonian Institution

The head of a snake with the tongue sticking out. The snake is a mostly yellowish/cream coloured on the throat and around the lips. The sides and top of the head are a dirty grey a number of red markings. The snake is looking to the left in the picture.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 09/01/2026

Did spiders really turn dark because of pollution? 🕷️🏭 Industrial melanism is famous from the Peppered Moth — but what about spiders? Join Dr Geoff Oxford on 26th Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE uncovering the evidence (and myths). 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417... @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A common spider I’ve really put in the hours for over the last 2 years. After I checked a cemetery in vain less than an hour prior, who should turn up in a folded leaf right outside my door but Parasteatoda simulans? Just 10 species to 400! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/05/2026

A Snake Sculpture 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong Thailand.

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

When curiosity overtakes self preservation...if you think it looks good, check it! Glad i did - the first time I've seen Haplodrassus dalmatensis and the first Cornish record in 20+ years. Yet another addition to the ridiculous assemblage on the West Lizard cliffs! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

An attempt to photograph this Philodromus aureolus mid-moult on the clothes pegs revealed a very impatient male waiting for her to finish! He briefly locked horns with another male while she decided she wanted nothing to do with either of them... @britishspiders.bsky.social

A female spider moults while an impatient male climbs up onto her

A female spider moults while an impatient male watches her

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Another London specialty joins the ranks of Philodromus buxi in Oxford - Anyphaena sabina @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

First up in a new #EccentricErigoninae series, where some of the weirdest Erigonine headgear is on display - Diplocephalus permixtus, a tiny (and supposedly common) spider I finally found for the first time yesterday. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A small black and brown spider in the family Linyphiidae, with a head that is split into two parallel roughly conical protuberances

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Two specialist ant hunting spiders Anagena phalerata and the rare Moon Spider Callilepis nocturna around Prawle, Devon this week

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The best kind of lime Jello! The iconic Micrommata virescens - the UK’s only Sparassid, my 375th British spider and perhaps the first spider I set my sights on when I started getting into arachnology back in 2022. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It can be quite satisfying to briefly stop spider recording and start spider watching instead! Alopecosa barbipes, Arctosa perita, Evarcha arcuata and Talavera petrensis from sandy Surrey heath. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A large grey wolf spider stares into the camera

A well-camouflaged wolf spider on a sandy background

A jumping spider with a bright red face looks into the camera.

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Having had no luck with this fantastic ant-hunting genus before, including immatures and just-not-good-enough palp shots, I'm glad to have seen 3 of the 4 UK Zodarion in under a month. From left - Z. italicum, Z. fuscum, Z. rubidum. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Drama in the garden, with a bunch of freeloader flies (yes, that's a thing) taking advantage of a crab spider's kill on the milkweed.

Photograph of a white flower head amid other vegetation, a plump white spider sitting atop it facing left and dangling a dead honey bee from its mouth. A dozen or so small black flies are clustered on the bee,with three airborne flying about it.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I have done this cliff at Kynance to death over the last year - other than the elusive Altella lucida, I thought I had it nailed...A bit of stone turning with @graemelyons.bsky.social this week turned up Ozyptila scabricula! An amazing addition to the Lizard spider list! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Probably my favourite UK Theridiid - took a while to find my first one and now seems to appear infrequently and unpredictably. The <2 mm incredibly photogenic Pholcomma gibbum. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A small reddish spider perched atop a single strand of moss - the cobweb spider Pholcomma gibbum

A small reddish spider on a white background - the cobweb spider Pholcomma gibbum

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Two Oxon firsts from casual fencepost spidering - Walckenaeria vigilax from....a bus stop and 'what appears to be Typhochrestus simoni(!!) from a damp urban meadow. Really goes to show what an effective method it can be to meet otherwise elusive linys... @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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 · 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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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @bucksinvertgroup.bsky.social A spider that's neither rare nor particularly scarce. It has, however, taken me an awful long time and many fruitless searches to finally find Pachygnatha listeri

A small spider with a pitted orange cephalothorax in the family Tetragnathidae - Pachygnatha listeri, Lister's Thick-jaw

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A spider I don't see nearly as often as I should - the delightful Green Meshweaver (Nigma walckenaeri). This one was found trapezing after dark, and even when she sat down I needed some comically acrobatic manouevres to get the shot (hence the suboptimal sharpness). @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I think people (including myself) fail to realise just how diverse arthropods are! I was recently humbled when attempting to ID a Schizomid - a distant cousin of an arachnid group I’m very familiar with - and was presented with the beautiful and thoroughly incomprehensible word ‘propeltidium’.

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