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The spider hunter

21st June, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments spider, wasp

During lockdown we’ve got quite familiar with our garden. Recently, Cat saw a very large wasp flying about in a

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Comkers by Andy Hay
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Are spiders afraid of conkers?

20th July, 20164th August, 2016 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments chestnuts, competition, conkers, school

I doubt there’s a spider enthusiast who is not familiar with enquiries about how to keep spiders out of the

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Autumn mowing? Look out for spider egg sacs!

31st October, 20143rd November, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments argiope, eggs, mowing

I was out looking at a site preparing for an autumn cut. Hopefully we will get it done before it

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Prepare yourselves for the crazy spider story season

3rd August, 20143rd August, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments bite, cobblers, daily mail, false widow, poison, scare, steatoda, venom

It’s that time of year again, when the media warms up for a summer of ‘False Widow’ scare stories. Not

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This spider is pretending to be a beetle

23rd March, 201423rd March, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments australia, new guinea, spiders

Jumping spiders are known to imitate ants – and some of these clever mimics can be found in the UK.

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Spiders by post – that’s got to be cruel, hasn’t it?

8th September, 2013 Matthew Chatfield 5 Comments invertebrates, law, leicester, post, spiders, tarantula, weird

In a bizarre news item, the BBC reports: A man has admitted sending a rare venomous spider in a package

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An enormous jumping spider

17th July, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments huge animals, jumping, spiders, video

Jumping spiders are, on the whole, pretty tiny things. And I say ‘pretty’ deliberately as they are amongst the cutest, funniest and

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Is Eresus the cutest spider on earth? Send me to find out.

23rd June, 201210th January, 2017 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments buglife, eresus, invertebrates, spiders

The worlds’s cutest spider. It’s a hard-fought contest, with the jumping spiders invariably on the podium. But I’ve got a

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More names! More names!

11th February, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments cute, eresus, rare

My favourite British spider – at least in theory, never having seen one – is the ultra-rare Ladybird Spider, of

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Ant vs. Spider

27th April, 2011 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments ants, spiders

Thought I’d gone? Not really. Although I’m now even more of a virtual ranger than I ever was. Meanwhile, spiders!

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