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This spider is pretending to be a beetle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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