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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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Nick Baker breaks the fourth wall with ‘Beautiful Freaks’

13th January, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment 3d, crabs, nick baker, spiders

The first time the Virtual Ranger met Nick Baker he was presenting prizes at the British Wildlife Photography Awards. Stricken

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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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Why do spiders come indoors in the autumn?

4th September, 2010 Matthew Chatfield 60 Comments bath, frankie howerd, spiders, tegenaria

A perennial question on this site’s popular Ask the Ranger facility is “Where do spiders go in the winter?” (So

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Giant, venomous, invading alien spiders… again.

10th May, 200912th September, 2016 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments exaggeration, lies, massive animals, media, newspapers, spiders

Oh, no! An Australian town has been terrorised by giant, venomous spiders. Newspapers all around the world are recounting the

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You bad plant!!

16th June, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment plants, spiders

The Ranger obtained a little Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) plant from a local garden centre to see if it would

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Spiderlings scatter when scared

7th May, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments spiders

In The Ranger’s back garden today, the season’s crop of spiderlings have hatched and are soaking up the sun: These

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