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Geoff Oxford , a biologist who taught at the University of York for more than four decades, is an authority on spider colour variation and speciation. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You'll be able to spot this species by its reddish-brown body and find it living mostly in walls of buildings.
Britain's Spiders: A Field Guide – Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. This book combines information on features that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens with additional evidence from webs, egg-sacs, behaviour, phenology, habitats and distributions.
This revised edition of Britain’s Spiders a field guide is a guide to all 38 of the British families, focusing on spiders that can be identified in the field, as well as separate guides to webs and egg-sacs.
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?They are often spotted close to ground level on garden plants, in long grass or around plant pots outside.