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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We really need to reinvigorate the word "stonking", because I can't think of any other way to say that this is an absolutely stonking beast! Araneus diadematus draped in an intense brick red. You'd be excused for mistaking it for A. alsine, as I did for a second! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Andy Pym @exmoormothman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does this look ok for Anyphaena numida? Would be new for me. Off Ivy in the lane behind the house in Filton, South Glos. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social Feels like the start of Autumn - Linyphiidae season. A nice Small-horned Walckenaer (Walckenaeria corniculans) from the weekend, to start things off

Image shows the head detail of a small yellow-brown Money Spider, in close-up. The spider has a small horn at the tip of its cephalothorax that has a tuft of hairs protruding

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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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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My wife just spotted this beast of a spider on our living room ceiling. Zoropsis spinimana the Mediterranean False Wolf or Nosferatu Spider. An introduced, fearsome looking but harmless species usually found in houses. 1st found in Devon 2025 it is likely to spread fast. Thx @tylanberry.bsky.social

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Quick stop in Plymouth to see Badumna longinqua, the webs are so distinctive on fences and various metalwork. Interesting that they seem to completely shun stone walls. I can confirm that it is well established south of the A38 at Eggbuckland now - bus stop says it all! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There are 15 Walckenaeria species with records in West Norfolk. I've seen 5 of those. Wondering whether I can find the other ten over the autumn/winter period? Includes W.stylifrons of course.

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The UK's most southerly record of Argiope bruennichi - not far from Lizard Point itself. Can we find it there?! I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing this spider with a maritime cliff backdrop! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There are still some of our larger British species that make me stop in awe. So much so that, on seeing this Micrommata virescens in Devon last week, I forgot to take pics of all of the Dolomedes fimbriatus 🤦‍♂️ @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seems to be Spitting spider season (check out the BAS Atlas). Indoors this time. Not unusual for me to see two or three over a week or so and then nothing for months, or even until the next year. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Very, very few ground dwelling spiders out on the West Penwith cliffs at the moment. Everything is rather dry and crispy! This was one of three(!) adult money spiders - Micrargus laudatus. It's something I see relatively frequently in pioneer or very short maritime heath @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This small patch of stones on top of a rock at Kynance Cove never misses- that's seven, yes SEVEN(!), female Porrhoclubiona genevensis with eggs inside their little sacs under one stone. I have no idea why they bundle together like this, but it's not an unusual occurrence @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Quite amazing camouflage - Philodromus margaritatus in mid Cornwall. They have a habit of wrapping their legs around twigs/branches like this and pressing their body flat. Beating the lichen covered lateral branches trees, partially Larch seems a good way to find it here @britishspiders.bsky.social

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One of the highlights of a trip to the Purbeck heaths, Dorset yesterday - the stunning pink Heather Crab Spider Thomisus onustus.

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Neottiura bimaculata, Cream-backed Comb-footed spider. Just the one British species but considered regionally abundant. I rarely see it, usually in gardens, and still yet to find a male. This one is carrying her carefully made egg sack and safely released. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Lisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think this is the spider Euophrys frontalis, with bonus red spider mite. Seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 20/06/26 @graemelyons.bsky.social @ajcann.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social #Arachnid

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Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Another Happy Emily day. Grasses and Sedges refresher for me but also managed to find a spider!! Drapetisca socialis I think.....wonderfully camouflaged on the silver birch🕷️ @britishspiders.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @tylanberry.bsky.social More spiders on the move. Enoplognatha mordax, moving inland from the coast, a first for me and maybe VC24 too. Meanwhile, Theridion pinastri and Macaroeris are busy establishing themselves in the south of the county

Enoplognatha mordax, a medium-sized Comb-footed Spider

Theridion pinastri, a small Comb-footed Spider

A male Macaroeris nidicolens, a medium-sized Jumping Spider

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Cryptachaea riparia, one of our most fascinating species of spider. It's never an easy thing to find, but there is one spot where I can always guarantee to find it - on the road around the corner from a pub outside of Falmouth! Loads of them along the base of a wall! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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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Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Anyone any thoughts on this - I'm a bit stumped. Tm-IV present, I thought spines were 2-2-2-2 but might be 2-2-(2/1)-1. Slight head raise with eyes pushed together a bit. Tm in second half of leg (.6-.8?). @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An amazing looking structure. The egg sac of Zelotes latreillei. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's that time of year again! and much like the Flower Crab Spiders, Spider Spies is coming out of hibernation and running a second year. So if you want to be involved in investigating these colourful spiders and their flower using habits head over to our website foragingecology.com/spider-spies/

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A very impressive looking male Ozyptila scabricula, collected as a sub adult a moth ago right at the edge of a friable cliff slip near Land's End. A pretty identical situation to where I had it with @graemelyons.bsky.social on the Lizard in April. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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 · 25/05/2026

The spiders did not disappoint this weekend - 4 lifers! Heliophanus apiatus and Tetragnatha pinicola with @chalkspring.bsky.social (pictured is another individual from today), as well as Cryptachaea riparia and Pachygnatha listeri (so it DOES exist...)

A jumping spider with a black and white domino pattern looks up to the top left of the screen

A long-jawed orbweaver with large jaws and outstretched palps

A colourful black and red cobweb spider faces the camera

A colourful red thick-jaw spider on a piece of bark

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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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Andy Pym @exmoormothman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Episinus sp, which I thought showed some features good for maculipes? It definitely has a white patch on the sternum. Beaten off of a large patch of Ivy growing down over a wall in the lane directly behind the house in Filton, S. Glos. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social

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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 · 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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Stuart Goodwin @spg73.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

As I’m starting to record Arachnids, might as well start close to home. An Eratigena so. possibly duellica (Giant House Spider) & a Pseudeuophrys, possibly lanigera (House Jumping Spider). #kentnature @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The beautifully camouflaged Sand Running Spider Rhysodromus fallax, 3 found at Braunton Burrows, North Devon today thanks @tylanberry.bsky.social

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A damp evening out looking for Blue Ground Beetles Carabus intricatus in the Dart Valley, saw 10 beetles, a Nightjar hawking low over trees at dusk and the highlight this Lichen Running Spider Philodromus margaritatus. Dartmoor, Devon

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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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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Unbelievable!! This amazing Lotus subbiflorus carpet at Land's End has just thrown up Micaria albovittata...over 100km away from the nearest population on the other side of Cornwall! How on earth have I not seen this in between yet? Moreover, why is it not on the Lizard!? @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One day I'll get a photo of Lasaeola prona that I'm happy with. After 15 minutes chasing this big 3mm female around with my camera, I've conceded that today will not be that day! They're such tricky things. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Got me looking now. Mating pair from a few years ago.

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

Ynys Wyllt visit yesterday produced some cracking spiders Arctosa leopardus and a Trochosa female which might be spinipalpis, but will probably just be terricola after 🔬. Only 1 previous spider record for site. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social

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

Really pleased to finally be able to pick this little beasty out of the hoards of Oedothorax at some excellent early meadows over Easter this year. Porrhomma microphthalmum - not a spider I see often at all, and one that doesn't really look like a Porrhomma! @britishspiders.bsky.social

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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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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Found a Drassodes lapidosus recently eating a suspiciously spider looking prey item. It had handily done all the dissection necessary for identification of said prey too-Zelotes latreillei! No mean feat to catch Zelotes, but Drassodes are supreme spider hunters. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

@britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @tylanberry.bsky.social Philodromus buxi is slowly spreading outwards from London. This, an adult male, is the first time I've seen it in my Buckinghamshire garden

Running Crab Spider with long and conspicuously striped legs, sitting on a painted metal surface

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Allan Douglas @doug504.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@tylanberry.bsky.social was wondering if you could ID this spider I spotted in my garden recently. Spiders not my thing, more into beetles but the unusual colouration caught my eye. Never seen one like it before. North East England , Sunderland

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Spotted this adult female Ero aphana in Barry. A nationally scarce spider and appears to be the third record for VC41 Glamorgan. The other two I have managed to find were in Penarth. @britishspiders.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk @cofnod.org.uk @tylanberry.bsky.social

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Any suggestions? Best photo I have with this 2mm liny'. Simply not clear enough for me to ID. Woodland habitat, reddish legs. Hopefully someone can recognise the mantis shape. If not will keep for it for when I have better scope. Ta @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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British Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Keep an eye open now for Agalenatea redii, the Gorse Orb Weaver. Gorse is a good place to find it but it can also be found in other bushes, heather, grass, and on fences etc. Like many others in the family Araneidae, A. redii is variable in appearance, and has several strikingly different forms.

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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 · 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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