Britain's Spiders (WILDGuides): A Field Guide - Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: 77 (WILDGuides of Britain & Europe)

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Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. This revised edition of Britain’s Spiders a field guide is a guide to all 38 of the British families, focusing on spiders that can be identified in the field, as well as separate guides to webs and egg-sacs. Orb weaver spiders are found between July and October, making webs in gardens around the country (and helping to keep the flies out). This fine work, co-produced with the British Arachnological Society, offers the best introduction and field guide to British spiders by a country mile. Mike Roberts re-drew all the pedipalps and epigynes and repainted the colour plates for this single-volume field guide.

Vernacular names are given where already in place, but it is good to see the authors have not been tempted to invent numerous common names. As the first photographic field guide to British spiders to be published since 1989, this book fills a major gap in the resources available to everyone with an interest in this fascinating, diverse and important group of animals.Britain's Spiders: A Field Guide – Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. As an entomologist conducting much fieldwork throughout Britain and photographing insects in nature, I have been guilty of virtually ignoring spiders, but this book makes identification much simpler and I might even be tempted to photograph arachnids in nature. While these UK spiders aren't usually dangerous to humans, if they get caught in your clothing they might give you a little nip on the skin. Individual accounts cover 404 species-all of Britain's "macro" spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained. this fine, good-value guide provides all you need to begin exploring the wonderful world of spiders.

For beginners or indeed anyone who does not already own a copy of this guide it is a must have volume that provides a comprehensive and easy to use introduction to this fascinating group. In this new fully revised and updated 2020 reprint we find the book now covering 404 species (including nine 'new' species for the UK) illustrated by 900 photographs (previously 700) over 496 pages (480 in the first edition), adopting recent name changes, utilising updated distribution maps, and delving even deeper than the first edition did into features that can be seen with a hand lens to help with field identification.In the past the difficulty in naming all but a few distinctive species have turned many people away from the subject [.

The Lace Web Spider is usually around four to 15mm long and can be spotted living in the holes of walls and bark. These are very common and widespread around the UK, so don't be surprised if you find them around your home during autumn and winter, particularly after it has rained. Individual accounts cover 404 species—all of Britain’s “macro” spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Now in a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, Britain's Spiders is a guide to all 38 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. It is not surprising to see the gap filled by WILDGuides, with its wide range of highly regarded titles. Britain’s Spiders is a must have for anyone interested in identifying spiders; it crams an amazing amount of information into a compact and affordable guide. The first 97 pages cover introductions, such as a glossary to terms used, biology, where and how to find them, the other part of this 480 page book includes the main species coverage, a list of British species with colour-coded conservation status, references and an index.

It's not too big to put in your rucksack but big enough to give an enormous amount of information about British spiders. I can't think of a field guide to any group of organisms that is more densely packed with information than this guide to Britain's spiders.Individual accounts cover 404 species – all of Britain's "macro" spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained.