Reposted by Tylan BerryShreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tapinesthis 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 3146
Reposted by Tylan BerryFin Roe @finroe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Nationally Rare Linyphiid, Minicia marginella, picked up at it’s type UK location last week. 0102
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One 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 16818
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't think I've ever heard "Pied Stone Spider", but I quite like it! 110
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was really excited to see some adult Trochosa from the Sphagnum depths of Morden Bog recently - a historic site for the mythical T. spinipalpis. Annoyingly, and unsurprisingly to be honest, all of them were T. terricola, as seems to always be the case from western bogs @britishspiders.bsky.social 0113
Reposted by Tylan BerryTegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some spiders from the last few days. Anypheana numida, Liocranum rupicola the Pied Stone spider and Parasteatoda spiderlings, P.tepidariorum? Also possible new site for what is likely Helpis. For size it has a small fruit fly. @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk 1154
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We 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 2245
Reposted by Tylan BerryAndy Pym @exmoormothman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Does 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 3133
Reposted by Tylan BerryEsmond 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 1228
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026No way! I looked for it there about 5 or 6 years ago, but didn't find it. Also near Manordeilo but with no luck. I did have a tired 10 year old in tow, so my time was curtailed! 020
Reposted by Tylan BerryEsmond 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 4217
Reposted by Tylan BerryJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My 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 1488
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Quick 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 1142
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Sand dunes are also good for monoceros. What I really wanted to do, but completely ran out of time for last year, was visit Thetford Forest. I bet sieving mossy litter in the winter there will be very productive. 100
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A few of us have looked hard for stylifrons at Weeting recently to no avail. The vast majority of them can be found in the winter by sieving damp moss and litter under woodland shade or deep heather. The exception mainly being monoceros that likes hot, dry, short turf sites habitats. 100
Reposted by Tylan BerryAndrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social · 18/08/2026There 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. 141
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The 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 0103
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There 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 0306
Reposted by Tylan BerryTegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Seems 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 1143
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Very, 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 073
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 31/07/20263. They probably can to a certain extent, by chemical cues and signals. It is very rare to see an adult female eat very young spiderlings of the same species in my experience. It would be interesting to understand how this comes about and when such "protection" might wear off! 021
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 31/07/20262. I have absolutely no idea if these adult females are from the same brood. It is possible, but I'd say very unlikely. 121
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Great questions! I'm not sure I can answer with any certainty: 1. Highly likely that they are. Once inside these egg sacs they don't leave until the young disperse, so don't come into direct contact with each other. Maybe adult females "tolerate" each other's presence, similarly to Pardosa. 121
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This 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 2123
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Quite 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 2297
Reposted by Tylan BerryJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 28/07/2026One of the highlights of a trip to the Purbeck heaths, Dorset yesterday - the stunning pink Heather Crab Spider Thomisus onustus. 27613
Reposted by Tylan BerryTegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Neottiura 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 1124
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It is indeed E. frontalis, a male. You can see his little white socks. 120
Reposted by Tylan BerryLisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I 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 2204
Reposted by Tylan BerryArable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Another 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 2215
Reposted by Tylan BerryEsmond 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 1156
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Cryptachaea 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 084
Reposted by Tylan BerryJames Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Quite 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 2175
Reposted by Tylan BerryAndrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Anyone 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 122
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 04/06/2026An amazing looking structure. The egg sac of Zelotes latreillei. @britishspiders.bsky.social 1275
Reposted by Tylan BerryRosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It'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/ 01815
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Because he hasn't had the opportunity to cover himself in soil particles yet, you can really make out the bicolour patterning. Rather natty looking thing! 010
