Detailed accounts and more than 700 stunning photographs highlight key identification features for each genus and species, and include information on status, behaviour and habitats Up-to-date distribution maps, and charts showing adult seasonality Introductory chapters on the biology of spiders, and where, when and how to find them, including equipment needed in the field. From Cellar Spiders to Cupboard Spiders, you may spot these creepy crawlies in corners around the home and garden. Individual accounts cover 404 species—all of Britain’s “macro” spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Placing a spider in the correct family from general appearance becomes easier with experience, but is an essential first step in naming the species.The Lace Web Spider is usually around four to 15mm long and can be spotted living in the holes of walls and bark. They are often spotted close to ground level on garden plants, in long grass or around plant pots outside.

And the first step in not ignoring them is to know what they are, Which is where the new edition of this splendid guide comes in.The stand-out feature of these guides is the generous layout and spacing of the species accounts afforded by the format. When the weather cools down, you may notice the eight-legged creatures coming into your home to keep warm.

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. Individual accounts cover 404 species-all of Britain’s “macro” spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ.Includes a guide to spider families based on features recognisable in the field, body shape and other characteristics as well as separate guides to webs and egg-sacs; plus equipment needed in the field and where, when and how to find them.

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. A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year.Only a relatively few Linyphiidae or money spiders species (around 40) with a distinctive abdominal pattern, some of which can be recognised using a hand lens, are included. this book is the only photographic guide since the now out-of-print Country Life Guide to Spiders by Dick Jones". The colour illustrations are also useful with preserved specimens, though less so with living spiders. Now in a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, Britain’s Spiders is a guide to all 38 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. This spider lives in the UK but also abroad where, in places home to more venomous spiders, is often mistaken for the notorious black widow.