Tom Pollard

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

@bernoid Bingo! @BritishSpiders #spiders

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

Delicious bit of plastic inside my ⁦@waitrose⁩ mince pie. Mmmmm.

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

Just a friendly neighbourhood Marpissa muscosa hanging out by the shed. #Spiders @BritishSpiders @halidecamera

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

@BritishSpiders About 1mm.

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This tiny (immature?) thing was shaken off while trimming a plant in the garden. Not a great photo…Theridion? #spiders @BritishSpiders

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

@tea_francis @JosePaulo_C I have a couple of badger skulls and they’re larger and longer-nosed with a pronounced sagittal crest. I was thinking mustelid as well, but for no good reason!

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Just heard a #Cuckoo in #SydenhamWoods. Going to try and find it.

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

Remarkably decent macro using #Halide app on an iPhone 14. #Coleoptera

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#Swifts!!!

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@Stewchat @BritishSpiders I worked in a garden centre in Chelsea as a teenager in the 1980s and there was a healthy colony of these around the houseplant display cases. I took one up to the Natural History Museum for identification, but never got a response. 😔

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It’s been a while…forgot to tag! #spiders @BritishSpiders

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So excited to see my first in-person moult! Nursery web spider in my garden. Saw it getting into position and had time to set up time lapse on my phone. Whole thing took about 20 minutes. Another one came to take a look.

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

So excited to see my first in-person moult! Nursery web spider in my garden. Saw it getting into position and had time to set up time lapse on my phone. Whole thing took about 20 minutes. Another one came to take a look.

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

@tea_francis I have a massive pair of naturally-shed North American elk antlers that would look *amazing* with this treatment.

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

@FionneOrlander It’s not identical but a similar variety is available in the uk: https://t.co/9dH9AXpR9W

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Sad to read about the closure of the #AirBalloon pub in Gloucestershire. Happy memories of evenings spent drinking Old Rosie there while digging at #CrickleyHill in the late 80s.

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As annoying as parakeets can be, they are a treat to see outside the bedroom window when they’re all quietly munching crab apples.

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

Beautiful female Nigma walckenaeri on the back wall of the house this morning. #spiders ⁦@BritishSpiders⁩

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Ridiculous impulse payday purchase #7861: Model peacock #spiders from Japan ⁦@BritishSpiders⁩ ⁦@Tone_Killick⁩

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Is there a #spiders group in south east #London where I can learn some fieldcraft and ID skills? @BritishSpiders

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Retweeting, because I forgot it was #Arachtober

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And another… ⁦@BritishSpiders⁩ #spiders

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

Retweeting, because I forgot it was #Arachtober

[Tom Pollard @tompollardMAG]

And another! ⁦@BritishSpiders⁩ #spiders