Tylan Berry

Spiders. It's all about the spiders.

[BAS @BritishSpiders]

For those of you that are also present elsewhere 👇🏻

We intend to remain here on X / Twitter as well, at least whilst there remains interest in arachnids and our posts

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@BritishSpiders Getting down and dirty, and absolutely soaking wet during the winter is a brilliant way to find things that you'd normally miss!

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

Excellent spiders from @CwallWildlife Cabilla NR - new site and hectad for Philodromus margaritatus and Agyneta innotabilis, new site for Hyptiotes paradoxus, and a 25mile hike west for Trematocephalus cristatus - the 2nd Cornish site for it. @BritishSpiders @cofnod @graemelyons

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@Tegwyn777 @BritishSpiders @cofnod I think either would be new to Pembrokeshire, a very good find. There's a lot mote to do in the county, I'm always itching to check the woods around Canaston Bridge. I was in Milford last week, unfortunately had no time to escape to do any spidering!

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@Tegwyn777 @BritishSpiders @cofnod Looks like every A. sturmi I have ever seen, a darker spider with even darker shoulder marks to the abdomen. Every A. triguttatus I've seen has been quite bright red/orange. Where were the pines?

[@jtchi.bsky.social @TchilinguirianJ]

Microctenonyx subitaneus (Linyphiidae) next to a Trochosa terricola (Lycosidae) pedipalp :)

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@Chizz_79 @BritishSpiders Great to see a pic of the live beast!

[Chizz @Chizz_79]

A new species for me Walckenaeria obtusa, I do not see any records for this in west sussex, an old record in east sussex from the late 60's

@BritishSpiders #spiders #arachnid #walckenaeria

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@andydouglas1967 Lovely palp shot. They are an impressive Liny!

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@graemelyons I've seen Choughs pulling their webs out of the ground at the Lizard!

[Chizz @Chizz_79]

What a Genus!
Here is the nationally Scarce, Walckenaeria dysderoides first one ive seen in west sussex.
@BritishSpiders #spiders #arachnids #uk #walckenaeria

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@andydouglas1967 @BritishSpiders I agree with the IDs even though theyre immatures and yes I'd record them as such.

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@andydouglas1967 This is C. bicolor for me. The tooth in blue appears as though the end of the paracymbium is folded and pointing back on itself. There's also more going on at the end of the palp in red (scientific term there!!).

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@TBeetles @ecology_digest @BritishSpiders Brill, thanks. I saw Z. silvestris amongst a few others that I don't see in the deep southwest when I was there a few years ago.

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@andydouglas1967 I'd say C. concinna. C. bicolor has a more pronounced hump at the top of the cymbium (red) and has a tooth on that points backwards on the paracymbium (blue). I see hundreds of C. concinna, but not many bicolor here - in my experience the latter is always a bigger spider.

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@TBeetles @ecology_digest @BritishSpiders Was it the patches of over mature heath there? Or degraded as in poached and overgrazed?

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@arableplants @cofnod @BritishSpiders @NHarnser @chalkspring Very nice indeed. I've seen immatures of this and noted that they appeared more hairy than the G. occidentalis I see here. Yours also seems quite hairy!

[ArableEmily #formerlyknownasweeds @arableplants]

This glorious specimen came running over as we knelt in the rain on a shingle spit in May. Confirmed today by @cofnod as Gnaphosa lugbris. A ground spider of epic charisma and proportion! @BritishSpiders @BerryTylan @NHarnser @chalkspring

[Tylan Berry @BerryTylan]

@arableplants @BritishSpiders @NHarnser Possibly, but I have no idea what might cause it. Maybe diet induced as this can happen when they eat red inverts.