James Chisnall

It gets better i had 2 females in the sample, wet woodland in moss and leaf litter below pines.

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A second Important record for West Sussex, I found it last year. And found it again today at a different site. Centromerus cavernarum.

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Superb! I really like this species i found them at a second site for Sussex on Christmas eve.

Another interesting Liny from the dying light of Halvana Plantation of a late afternoon last week. A second Cornish site for Maro minutus. This little 1mm thing is weirdly distinctive in the tray...aided very much by a head torch!! @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @graemelyons.bsky.social

But also like you said shame the spiders didnt make maturity.

Yeah pretty interesting 👍

At the end of last year i collected a spider i was hoping to raise that all changed when this parasitic fungi took hold of it i suspect gibellula sp. Quite fasinating really.

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Honourable mentions (this list was very tough to compile and I feel I need a way to cheat a bit):

Clockwise: Gasteracantha doriae, Walckenaeria nodosa, Haplodrassus minor, Walckenaeria corniculans, (thanks @chizz13.bsky.social and @chalkspring.bsky.social)

A few from last weekend in West Sussex. Walckenaeria cucullata, Centromerus serratus and Cicurina cicur.
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Great Record on Sunday, Centromerus serratus this record makes two sites now in West Sussex that ive picked this species up.
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Thanks, its all so fasinating.

This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens.
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Oh I see 😂

Yes Centromerus cavernarum

I believe so i cannot see an records from that area, @graemelyons.bsky.social will know if its a new hectad record.

From an ancient beech woodland in West Sussex, its a pig to get to with all the gear, and to date ive never seen much there. But thats has changed samples from the 9th November have produced Centromerus cavernarum!!One i had hoped for there.
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If you like i can try and document it with photos and send in for the BAS news letter if that helps? @britishspiders.bsky.social

For me which i shared with @chalkspring.bsky.social is i find it in the trenches in woodland where the leaf litter is deep, i then move all the fresh stuff and sieve the well rotted black layer of leaves seems to work well.

No problem 😁

I can see an old record for East Sussex in the early 90's. This record is for West Sussex.

Centromerus serratus, from a site in Sussex.
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Very nice glad the tip paid off!

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk Really happy to find this spider (another follow-up of Rowley Snazell's old Bucks records). From a site I'd visited previously, but looking at in a new way, thanks to a tip from @chizz13.bsky.social
Walckenaeria dysderoides #spiders

Nice to see this one, its the first time ive seen the male. From a woodland site in Sussex.
Pachygnatha listeri.
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My 3rd record for Walckenaeria obtusa at this woodland site, all 3 have been in moss under pines, all my W.nudipalpis records from that site are from leaf litter under sweet chestnut trees.
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😂

One that i dont pick up that often, a Nationally Scarce species.
Picked up in West Sussex.
Monocephalus castaneipes
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It was deep in Sweet chestnut litter there is moss around the area as well.