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04-07-2010, 07:44 AM
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| | | spider i.d Can anyone identify this spider please. It was on an area of heath on Anglesey. The grasshopper managed to hop away, the lucky blighter.
Thanks in advance.
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Last edited by ChrisJB; 04-07-2010 at 07:48 AM.
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04-07-2010, 07:54 AM
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| | | Re: spider i.d Looks like a male Agelena labyrinthica. There would have been a tubular retreat at some point of the web, you don't often get them straying far from the retreat so the grasshopper must've been too tempting.
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04-07-2010, 08:03 AM
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| | | Re: spider i.d Brilliant thanks for that. Are they common/rare?
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04-07-2010, 08:16 AM
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| | | Re: spider i.d They're not rare, though not found throughout the country. I've found them on Anglesey and in good numbers where they occur on the Lleyn Peninsula. Most commonly in Gorse bushes.
The BAS Distribution Map below gives the known distribution. The Updated Distribution Maps - British Arachnological Society
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04-07-2010, 08:53 AM
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| | | Re: spider i.d Many thanks Number 9, most interesting.
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