Spiders are tricky. Sometimes you can tell more by where you find them and from their habits than you can by looking at them. For example there's an orb weaver called the 'missing sector spider' that's very common and you'd struggle to tell it apart from other orb weavers, but it spins a typical bicycle wheel type web that has no connecting threads between two of the spokes so you can tell it immediately just from the style of the web. Just to complicate things though there's two very similar missing sector spiders and you can only really make a guess as to which you've found by where they spin their webs. One will spin on windows and cars and the other doesn't.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If you think spiders are hard try ichneumons. 2500+ species in the UK, none of which like to sit still and all basically impossible to ID. I just found this big one in the house.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I tried to take some quick photos before it flew away and the only one in focus was way over exposed. The photo on my hand shows the size though even if it doesn't do my gardener's tan justice. Luckily it landed somewhere shady for the second photo.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Some of my beard hair is ginger but it gives up trying once it gets above my ears and goes back to brown. There's a lot more grey in there since having kids though
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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