Britain's Spiders (WILDGuides): A Field Guide - Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: 77 (WILDGuides of Britain & Europe)

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If these prove difficult to obtain, a French-language edition with exactly the same photographs and layout is still available, with the added advantage of a supplementary section covering some typical Mediterranean spiders – see next title. For beginners or indeed anyone who does not already own a copy of this guide it is a must have volume that provides a comprehensive and easy to use introduction to this fascinating group.

The common crab spider is most frequently seen from March to August all over the country and their prefered habitat is low-lying vegetation.Geoff Oxford , a biologist who taught at the University of York for more than four decades, is an authority on spider colour variation and speciation. A complete list of the spiders recorded in Britain, indicating the ease of identification as well as rarity and conservation status Information on how to record spiders and make your records count, and guidance on how to take your interest further.

Individual accounts cover 404 species - all of Britain’s 'macro' spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained.An essential companion to Roberts if you wish to pursue a serious interest in the identification of British spiders. this book is the only photographic guide since the now out-of-print Country Life Guide to Spiders by Dick Jones". The first 97 pages are all about the biology, webs, habitats and behaviour, the other 350+ pages cover the hundreds of species that come in all shapes, colours and sizes. I strongly suspect that many arachnologists of the future will have been inspired by their encounter with this field guide. I am a complete novice to knowing about spiders in and around Britain , but this book I have to say is fantastic, I bet even someone who knows a thing or two about these little scurrying things would enjoy it.

The authors are to be congratulated on improving an already excellent guide and producing a gateway to what was once perceived as a difficult and demanding group. I can’t think of a field guide to any group of organisms that is more densely packed with information than this guide to Britain’s spiders. This book pushes the boundaries of field identification for this challenging group, combining information on features that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens with additional evidence from webs, egg-sacs, behaviour, phenology, habitats and distributions.As with its sister volume on harvestmen, this provides information on structure and biology of the British pseudoscorpions as well as keys and distribution maps. Chunky, glossy and colourful, this is an exciting proposition, and only the second photographic guide to our spiders, following the long out-of-print Country Life Guide to Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Dick Jones, 1983). Rather than catching its prey in a web, it attacks flies and mosquitoes by spitting a mixture of sticky silk to capture them. Illustrated with a remarkable collection of photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new to spider identification. The sector spider (also known as the missing sector orb weaver or the silver-sided sector spider) is a UK spider that lives only in houses.