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You'd be forgiven for having to look twice at this picture to see what's there. And harder still to see what's going on. Perfectly camouflaged for sandy soils, the spider Arctosa perita pins down another of its species (presumably a female attacking a male??) on one of our Plants for Bugs...
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Apologies to those with arachnid fears for jumping straight in with a picture of a spider but isn't it a great pic to see her with the egg sac (the big white silken ball tucked carefully underneath her body)? I guess not everyone will agree! Moving swiftly on... The key task I set our volunteers...
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Spring isn't quite sprung but we do have springtails out and about on our plots. You have to be sharp eyed to see them as they're not much bigger than a grain of rice. Above is a springtail from the family Entomobryidae (probably Entomobrya multifasciata ). You can tell how small it is by how...
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