🕷️Contender for #invertebrate of the year 2024?😲The Guardian Patrick Barkham SuffolkWildlifeTrust

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Maybe I should revise my count for how many Raft Spider I saw on Monday, probably 300+ if including this 'ball' of youngsters! #LytchettFields BAS

A small slice of heaven - cream tea at Dingle Hill Tearooms tea rooms, Dunwich, with #Nightingale #soundtrack VisitSuffolk Suffolk BIS BirdTrack

Just because it seems normal, doesn't mean it is. 'Shifting baseline syndrome' describes the gradual acceptance of degraded environmental conditions as the new normal.

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After nearly 4 months without standing water during last summer's #drought , a relief to see Fen Raft Spiders Dolomedes plantarius basking SuffolkWildlifeTrust Redgrave & Lopham Fen this week. Small for the time of year but still in business... SWTBroadsWarden BAS

As of this morning, #ThamesWater have been discharging diluted untreated #sewage into the beautiful limestone River Coln for 745 hours in a stream of effluent that began on 23 December last year. Time to #HoldThemToAccount 🤬 theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Here's a 🧵of the buggiest episodes Rutendo Shackleton & I made of the #BBCEarthPodcast , starting w/ Episode 1! play.acast.com/s/bbcearthpodc…

#RIP Dave Hewitt, Natural England Norfolk & Suffolk voluntary warden for Ludham Potter Heigham NNR for 24 yrs, advocate for & avid recorder of butterflies BC Norfolk, dragonflies British Dragonfly Society & spiders BAS, and a force behind the reserve's successful translocated Fen Raft Spiders.

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Major implications here for the conservation of these species in GB as well as across their entire European range JNCC Natural England Natural England Norfolk & Suffolk BAS Buglife

It’s been a long time since I last met a raft spider at my summer cottage plot in Hankasalmi. 😃❤️🕷

We have two species of genus Dolomedes in Finland, D. fimbriatus and D. plantarius. I believe this to be a juvenile female D. fimbriatus.

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After a brilliant bit of digging and research by Cerin Poland, a joint venture to a remote and isolated wetland site has just uncovered this. Yep, at long last, that's a Cornish Dolomedes! We were both flabbergasted to see it!!! BAS Graeme Lyons Cofnod

Always get the childminder DBS checked! Four-spotted Orbweb Spider Araneus quadratus and Foliate Orbweb spider Larinioides cornutus doing who knows what in active Fen Raft Spider Dolomedes plantarius nurseries. SWTBroadsWarden

Life and death in a rolled leaf - Water Dock , Four-spotted Orbweb Spider, wasp.

Little male Four-spotted Orbweb Spider Araneus quadratus well kitted-out for the task in hand on the lower Waveney Marshes today SWTBroadsWarden BAS

Here's a surprise. These massive silk pads, sandwiched between gates and gate posts on the Broads National Park grazing marshes, turn out to be Labyrinth Spider Agelena labyrinthica eggs chambers and sacs. An atypical situation - and risky when the gates are in use!