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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 17, 2016 17:30:20 GMT
A white female Misumena vatia on Creeping Thistle.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 28, 2016 3:46:58 GMT
A plump (probably full of eggs) female Wasp Spider sitting in her orb-web low down in some vegetation.
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 26, 2016 8:37:48 GMT
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Post by aeshna5 on Apr 8, 2017 16:34:43 GMT
A Zebra Spider on my front wall.
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Post by ianr on Sept 4, 2017 8:42:22 GMT
Biggie this one must have been nearly 8 ins not sure what make it is but very impressive ian. by IAN ROBINSON, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 4, 2017 17:01:29 GMT
It's one of the large Arion slugs which are a tricky group to identify.
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Post by rowanberry on Jul 11, 2018 18:40:51 GMT
This banded snail on a thistle. We don't get this sort in our garden, but frequently come upon them in nearby woods. I love how they look like striped humbugs.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 19, 2018 4:16:06 GMT
We found at least 6 Wasp Spiders yesterday in Richmond Park. At least 2 webs had lunch in them + we also found a couple of egg sacs.
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Post by teasel on Aug 21, 2018 9:04:40 GMT
Leopard slugs mating last night - the blue really is blue! I didn't take a photo as I thought the flash may upset them.
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Post by duncan74 on Sept 13, 2018 15:34:24 GMT
Very considerate Teasel, I certainly wouldn't like to be disturbed
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Post by duncan74 on Sept 13, 2018 15:45:38 GMT
A lovely little Nursery Web Spider Pisaura mirabilis, I went looking for spiders and insects today and found this one and in the vegetation there were lots more of them, probably not long hatched out and in the process of dispersing, only about 1.5 cm long and unusually light coloured, see the pale stripes running length ways down the legs and the way it lies with both legs together, Duncan Nursery Web Spider 1 Pisaura mirabilis by Duncan Mclean, on Flickr
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Post by duncan74 on Oct 8, 2018 18:32:16 GMT
Again on today's walk and identified by Aeshna as the Lesser Marsh Grasshopper, C. albomarginatus. Duncan Lesser Marsh Grasshopper.by Duncan Mclean, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Oct 9, 2018 4:39:14 GMT
That's not a Field Grasshopper, Duncan as the thoracic keels are parallel in your photo; they are distinctly angled in Field, which in addition have a very hairy underside to the thorax. Your photo is of a Lesser Marsh Grasshopper, C. albomarginatus.
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Post by aeshna5 on Apr 14, 2019 15:56:47 GMT
Three Nursery Web Spiders sunning themselves on a hellebore in the front garden sharing the plant with a Red Mason Bee, a greenbottle + the hoverfly, Eupeodes corollae.
Also a Speckled Wood + a brief unidentified white.
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Post by aeshna5 on May 19, 2019 14:01:27 GMT
Yesterday in the front garden was a white Misumena vatia crab spider on a purple Allium flower so not well camouflaged.
In the back garden was a cluster of c50 golden Garden Spiderlings together near my water butt.
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