Spiders

Agelena labyrinthica

Antistea elegans

Garden Cross Spider - Araneus diadematus

The Garden Cross spider builds an orb-web - the "typical" spider's web in order to catch its prey.

Dew laden webs can be seen on the heathland and in the meadows in late summer.   

Four Spot Orb spider - Araneus quadratus

This spider felt really heavy when it walked across my hand!

Green Cucumber Spider - Araniella cucurbitina

This well camouflaged spider builds a web to catch insects.

Bathyphantes approximates

Bathyphantes gracillis

Dictyna arundinacea

Diplocephalus permixtus

Enoplognatha ovata

Gnathonarium dentatum

Larinioides cornutus

False Scorpion - Lasiochernes cretonatus

Lepthyphantes tenuis

Lepthyphantes zimmermanni

Lophomma punctatum

Metellina segmentata

Microlinyphia pusilla

Pachygnatha clercki

Pardosa amentata

Pirata piaticus

Wolf Spider - Pisaura mirabilis

This species does not build a web to catch prey but hunts it down and paralyses it quickly! The female builds a nursery web in which her young can hatch and she then watches over them.

Zebra Spider - Salticus scenicus

A jumping spider.  It can jump on to its prey from a considerable distance.

Tetragnatha extensa

Crab Spider - Xysticus cristatus