Bill Parker

Nice review by Bill Parker, of my spider guide, in the @britishspiders.bsky.social newsletter

03.04.2025 18:04 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Richard!

03.04.2025 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Green Crab Spider (Diaea dorsata) on a car in Buckinghamshire … in February! The first of three photos of the same spider.

Not what I expected to find sitting on my car after I’d cleaned it! The weather is a bit warmer today in the UK but it is only mid-February! It’s anchor thread of silk visible in a couple of images.
Green Crab Spider (Diaea dorsata)
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20.02.2025 16:06 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Out today, hope it’s well received.

29.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 195    🔁 37    💬 11    📌 2

Some gorgeous spiders’ webs in the garden this morning, beautifully highlighted by the overnight frost and fog
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11.01.2025 12:12 — 👍 40    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Can’t see specimen but DUNNO is a bird ringer’s abbreviation for Dunnock. Parasites / flat flies collected from a dunnock, perhaps?

12.12.2024 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The cover of “Spiders” by WS Bristowe

1 of 3 : This week, we are going to highlight 7 different books on spiders that have been published over the last c.150 years that demonstrate the long-standing appeal of these fascinating invertebrates.
The first is Spiders by WS (Bill) Bristowe’s published by King Penguin in 1947

02.12.2024 15:57 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 2

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Setlist at De Montfort Hall, Leicester Get the Elvis Costello & The Attractions Setlist of the concert at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England on October 17, 1984 and other Elvis Costello & The Attractions Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

1984 … set list here www.setlist.fm/setlist/elvi...

01.12.2024 17:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Linyphia hortensis

Linyphia hortensis
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25.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

… and the BAS will have a presence on here soon

22.11.2024 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sarah, you are probably correct; the first known records of Pholcus phalangioides in Britain are from the mid-19th century, believed to have arrived with wine imports from SW France. However, that trade existed in the 16thC, so not impossible the species arrived sooner, just no one looking!

22.11.2024 16:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0