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Originally Posted by mrs fish  Don't you think my spider looks like Amaurobius similis , it even has a blueish white web, it was hiding in a large black water container in the shed we just took down ?
Sorry for the confusion  |
I hate to set you on the road to ruin and despair, but go to a really good book shop and have a little look through the Collins Field Guide, Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe, Michael Roberts.
For me it was like a new world, I thought of spiders as , well, is there more than one. I am useless at detailed ID, I don't spend enough time or see enough specimens, but those little tinkers are everywhere, and it is quite possible to make observations about them that no-one else has recorded. The Lion, the Leopard and the Wolf of your lawn.
Michael Roberts illustrations are a marvel and should replace the Mona Lisa on the walls of the Cistercian chapel of Pisa. I may have spelled Cistercian incorrectly, but who cares (me, I suppose. Just checked and it seems fine)