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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 29, 2019 4:23:46 GMT
A Raft Spider came out of the pool at Chobham + walked around the shore for a minute or so before returning to the water- all just over a foot from where I was standing.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 2, 2019 16:43:51 GMT
3 Wasp Spiders in Richmond Park. Also there the attractive Neoscona adianta + Roesel's Bush-cricket struggling to escape from an Araneus web.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 17, 2019 18:26:13 GMT
A live Roman Snail under one of the refugia.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 24, 2019 15:53:23 GMT
At least 8 female Wasp Spiders found low down in the herbage today. Such striking spiders with pretty distinctive webs to with the stabilementum.
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Post by rowanberry on Aug 28, 2019 20:03:02 GMT
These were all empty shells, found out in a grassy hilltop last week- I like the different colourings and band designs. Such an interesting variety.
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Post by aeshna5 on Mar 26, 2020 16:33:54 GMT
Lots of immature Nursery-web Spiders basking on low foliage.
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Post by aeshna5 on May 28, 2020 17:31:18 GMT
A new spider for me today. I was looking for moths around the outside lights of a closed loo block when I spotted a greyish spider on some wood panel. When I viewed it with my close-focus bins I could see it was a Fence Post Jumping Spider, Marpissa muscosa. Smart little critter.
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 22, 2020 19:48:07 GMT
I could not believe the quantity of these banded snails out at Stanmore today- hundreds of them were scattered all along the sunny side of the path leading up a grassy hilltop. It was difficult to avoid treading on them. Even though they weren't crawling about, they were alive- I'm guessing they were either sunning or feeding? 01 Stanmore Snail June 2020 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr 02 Stanmore Snail June 2020 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 24, 2020 17:25:12 GMT
My first Wasp Spider of the season, a stunning female, in her low web amongst the rushes today.
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Post by rowanberry on Aug 25, 2021 18:11:27 GMT
Macro-snail shot... I always see these whenever we go to Stanmore, but they've so photogenic it's hard to resist them. Snail Aug 2021 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 26, 2021 6:13:07 GMT
Another 4 Wasp Spiders yesterday, as well as another couple of distinctive spiders- Araneus quadratus & Neoscona adianta.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 6, 2022 13:12:35 GMT
On a meeting with the Ruislip Natural History Society somebody spotted a female Wasp Spider in the middle of her web low in the herbage-my first this year despite looking for them 10 days ago in a few spots where I often find them in Richmond Park
As people were photographing this a second was found just a few inches away, but a bit smaller.
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Post by ianr on May 25, 2023 6:35:11 GMT
At Rimac yesterday there were a couple of first for me 2 large black leeches easily 6 inches+ seen the smaller ones many times but these beauties were awesome and 2 again large 2 inch+ dragon fly larva both with a bite hold on the other tumbling about on top of the weed determined to eat each other, again awesome There were also lots of dragon flies and damsels around some distant ones were thick bodied and very blueish even at a distance they look quite big. sods law no camera with me ian
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