A rare spider described as a "master of disguise" has been sighted in Cornwall, an expert says.QED.
Tylan Berry, county spider recorder for the British Arachnological Society, said the "nationally rare" lichen running spider was sighted at West Muchlarnick, a temperate rainforest site near Looe. The "amazing looking" creature with its "incredible colour and camouflage" is "incredibly difficult to spot", he said.
But you spotted this one just fine! So maybe they aren’t as rare as you’d imagined?
They reside in "scattered pockets" between Cornwall and Surrey in the south of Britain, and in the Caledonian pine forests in Scotland. He said: "There is no evidence of the spider living anywhere between these two hugely separated areas."
Or maybe you just aren’t seeing it?
4 comments:
I might be your only commentator who is a member of the BAS and in the UK there are a lot of people who look for insects and spiders in the UK and considering the spider needs a certain habitat - it is very unlikely to be common.
I really like spiders and quite a few other small beasts. I quite like millipedes with their amazingly synchronised legs. Even wasps, psycho bastards but they clear all of the pests off my pepper plants.
Stonyground.
True, no doubt.
Wasps are very much demonised when they are little stripy predators - we should rename them flying tigers.
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