Bright green Spider

alge · #1 (**permalink**) 17-10-2009, 11:48 PM

I found this strikingly green spider today whilst looking for fungi or should i say it found my body warmer which i had been laying on whilst taking a photo of some shrooms. It was a really bright almost neon colour and when i went to move it off it jumped upwards and was not intimidated at all. I tilted my jacket and it fell off and then crawled back towards it I'm guessing it liked the heat

any ideas what it could be?

thanks in advance

alex

Venger · #2 (**permalink**) 18-10-2009, 01:19 AM

Female Micrommata virescens, more common down south and reasonably rare up north

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The Updated Distribution Maps - British Arachnological Society

aeshna5 · #3 (**permalink**) 18-10-2009, 06:09 AM

These are stunning spiders- a really luminescent spider. I saw my first many years back in a moth trap in Dorset.

I hadn't seen another until earlier this year when I saw c6 on a trip to Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Nice find!

alge · #4 (**permalink**) 18-10-2009, 09:06 AM

Thanks for the swift response folks, I looked at the distribution map and the cluster of three dots on north east kent were a good representation of my stomping ground. The two lower dots were probably V. close to my find site as it was around 8 miles in land. I'll keep em peeled (as Shaw taylor would say) and let you know if i find them in other woods around.

Many thanks again

Alex