I had seen on the Pembrokeshire Wildlife blog some excellent photos dated 16
July 2016 from Peter Byles, of the Nursery Web Spider - Pisaura mirabilis. You
may like to know that on a visit to Pembroke Dock I saw a Nursery Web Spider on
grass next to Pembroke River/Pennar Gut (OS ref: SM957023) on 26 December 2016.
This is an extremely late date for this spider; I have never seen one in Winter
where I live in Hampshire, and as an amateur arachnologist I am always on the
look out for spiders.
Two days earlier, on 24 December 2016, I saw another unexpected spider: a
Stripe-legged Spider - Harpactea hombergii. This was nearby one metre up a three
metre high South-facing cliff.
I realise that spiders are under-recorded in Pembrokeshire, nevertheless,
these were interesting finds in late December.
Regards,
Dennis Trunecka.
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