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| Welcome to the Website of the British Arachnological Society. Here you can find information on those fascinating animals, arachnids. Our emphasis is on British spiders but we don't exclude other arachnids such as Harvestmen (opilionids), Pseudoscorpions and Scorpions. There are images, distribution maps, general and more specific information on the different groups and species and if you can't find the information that you're looking for, you can contact us directly and we'll try to help.
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Our featured spider is Zygiella x-notata (Missing Sector Orb Weaver).
This is a common spider found on the outside of the windows of your house and often on the wing mirrors of your car.
The web is easily recognised, because it has a segment missing.
The spider's retreat is in the top corner of the window, or at the edge of the wing mirror in the cavity between the mirror and the casing.
Click on this link Zygiella x-notata for much more information on this fascinating spider.
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| Spider research in UK universities
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University of Nottingham, Spider Lab; Sara Goodacre
- Nottingham Spider Lab, BBC article and video
- Works on a range of evolutionary, population and conservation genetic studies, including dispersal-strategy and the persistence of population differentiation in money spider meta-populations; mating behaviour and sex ratio bias in tree dwelling spiders; and genetic tools to study and manage endangered raft spider populations.
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Oxford University, Oxford Silk Group; Fritz Vollrath
- Studies the biology of silks with the goal to unravel their evolution, ecology, physics and chemistry; spider web engineering and behaviour; and the metabolic costs of natural silk production and the ecological costs (and benefits) of the commercial silk industry.
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University of Manchester; David Penney
- Research interests include extant and fossil spider taxonomy and systematics; evolutionary history of spiders; reconstruction of fossil ecosystems; the timing of the radiations of the major extant spider families.
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Some common British Species
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