Family - Agelenidae
Genus - Agelena
Single UK species
Large sheetwebs with a tubular retreat.
Found at ground level and on bushes.
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
09.07.2011
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
28.07.2011
I Found this gravid female living on the ceiling of a Bird Hide at
Pulborough Brooks RSPB Nature Reserve.
I managed to coax her out of her topside base.
The ceiling was alive with harvestmen, lots of long legs in her web
as well as Crane Fly wings and the remains of a large Moth.
Pulborough Brooks RSPB Nature Reserve
11.07.2011
Feasting on a Squash Bug
Living in a Flint wall
Stanmer
14.07.2011
Photograph by Ann Hunt
Near Singleton, West Sussex
31.07.2011
Lullington Heath, East Sussex
09/06/2010
21.05.2011
Living comunally in the same web.
The larger one is definately a Male, with a smaller one in the same web,
I've not seen this before. I was focussing on the smaller (out of focus)
Spider, when the larger one appeared behind.
He came out still carrying his lunch!
Lullington Heath
Nr. Jevington
East Sussex
01.06.2011
Old Lodge Nature Reserve
Ashdown Forest, East Sussex
30.06.2011
2011
Many thanks to Alice Hopkins who very kindly sent me these Photographs
of a Labyrinth Spider she found along a Coastal path at Tintagel, Cornwall
2011
Genus - Agelena
Single UK species
Large sheetwebs with a tubular retreat.
Found at ground level and on bushes.
09.07.2011
28.07.2011
Pulborough Brooks RSPB Nature Reserve.
The ceiling was alive with harvestmen, lots of long legs in her web
as well as Crane Fly wings and the remains of a large Moth.
Pulborough Brooks RSPB Nature Reserve
11.07.2011
Living in a Flint wall
Stanmer
14.07.2011
Near Singleton, West Sussex
31.07.2011
Lullington Heath, East Sussex
09/06/2010
The Heath is covered in tiny Grasshoppers which the
Labyrinth Spiders feast on.
King's Standing
Ashdown Forest21.05.2011
The larger one is definately a Male, with a smaller one in the same web,
I've not seen this before. I was focussing on the smaller (out of focus)
Spider, when the larger one appeared behind.
"The Agelena with swollen palps is probably a subadult male
where the palps have not yet developed the complex structure
seen in adults. At this time of year it is usual for there to be large variation in
the stage at which individuals have reached, according to how
successful they have been in finding prey etc." Peter Harvey BAS
Nr. Jevington
East Sussex
01.06.2011
Ashdown Forest, East Sussex
30.06.2011
Californian Labyrinth Spiders
Photos by Ceridwen Falk2011
of a Labyrinth Spider she found along a Coastal path at Tintagel, Cornwall
2011
Thank you for posting these beautiful pictures! I just found a mature male examining the "web" on my loom, figured out he was of the Agelenidae family, but Tegenaria atrica or Agelena labyrinthica? Great to have the answer!
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