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. But this is the first time I’ve ever seen a
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Spiders by post – that’s got to be cruel, hasn’t it?
In a bizarre news item, the BBC reports: A man has admitted sending a rare venomous spider in a package to a colleague at work. Mahlon Hector, 22, of Leicester
Read moreAn enormous jumping spider
Jumping spiders are, on the whole, pretty tiny things. And I say ‘pretty’ deliberately as they are amongst the cutest, funniest and most decorative of spiders. The game of ‘hide and seek’
Read moreIs Eresus the cutest spider on earth? Send me to find out.
The worlds’s cutest spider. It’s a hard-fought contest, with the jumping spiders invariably on the podium. But I’ve got a soft spot for another family altogether, the eresids or Velvet
Read moreNick Baker breaks the fourth wall with ‘Beautiful Freaks’
The first time the Virtual Ranger met Nick Baker he was presenting prizes at the British Wildlife Photography Awards. Stricken with a streaming cold, he manfully posed for photos and
Read moreAnt vs. Spider
Thought I’d gone? Not really. Although I’m now even more of a virtual ranger than I ever was. Meanwhile, spiders! Check out this really great little video, and do watch
Read moreWhy do spiders come indoors in the autumn?
A perennial question on this site’s popular Ask the Ranger facility is “Where do spiders go in the winter?” (So much so that the answer is given on the same
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Giant, venomous, invading alien spiders… again.
Oh, no! An Australian town has been terrorised by giant, venomous spiders. Newspapers all around the world are recounting the ordeal of the town of Bowen, Queensland – the town
Read moreYou bad plant!!
The Ranger obtained a little Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) plant from a local garden centre to see if it would catch the fruitflies that tend to buzz around in his
Read moreSpiderlings scatter when scared
In The Ranger’s back garden today, the season’s crop of spiderlings have hatched and are soaking up the sun: These tiny creatures, probably Araneus diadematus, with a body size of
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