If these prove difficult to obtain, a French-language edition with exactly the same photographs and layout is still available, with the added advantage of a supplementary section covering some typical Mediterranean spiders – see next title. This is the UK's heaviest spider and they prefer a habitat of gardens, wooded areas, marshes or long grassland. A complete list of the spiders recorded in Britain, indicating the ease of identification as well as rarity and conservation status Information on how to record spiders and make your records count, and guidance on how to take your interest further.

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. From Cellar Spiders to Cupboard Spiders, you may spot these creepy crawlies in corners around the home and garden.Chunky, glossy and colourful, this is an exciting proposition, and only the second photographic guide to our spiders.

The Species Accounts are clear and concise, helped by the superb color photographs which accompany them. Only a relatively few Linyphiidae or money spiders species (around 40) with a distinctive abdominal pattern, some of which can be recognised using a hand lens, are included.Whether it's in the corner of our living room, in the bath or hanging quietly from the ceiling, these are the most common UK spiders you're likely to spot. This book is full of usefully information for an id guide and I particularly enjoy the line on the top of the page for each species which indicates the size of the spider, this is essential l tool that all invertebrate id guides should have. Placing a spider in the correct family from general appearance becomes easier with experience, but is an essential first step in naming the species.

A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year 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. The sector spider (also known as the missing sector orb weaver or the silver-sided sector spider) is a UK spider that lives only in houses. Helen Smith is a conservation biologist and currently leads the conservation programme for the endangered Fen Raft Spider. Chunky, glossy and colourful, this is an exciting proposition, and only the second photographic guide to our spiders, following the long out-of-print Country Life Guide to Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Dick Jones, 1983).

Includes a guide to spider families based on features recognisable in the field, body shape and other characteristics as well as separate guides to webs and egg-sacs; plus equipment needed in the field and where, when and how to find them. One of Radio Times's "books of the year from our columnists"" "How many different spiders do you think we have here in the UK? I'm a follower of the British Spider Identification group on Facebook, and this book is regularly mentioned as being the holy grail of id books.