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.

packed with information about the British spider fauna and is a 'must-have' for any entomologist wishing to study arachnids. You'll be able to spot this species by its reddish-brown body and find it living mostly in walls of buildings. This book pushes the boundaries of field identification for this challenging group, combining 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. I work with children with complex needs in an outdoor environment and despite it being my birthday present I let them use it because its easy to look through and there are plenty of pictures and creates excitement and reduces fear of spiders. As with many UK taxa, knowledge changes and in the case of spiders things have moved on very quickly.

While these UK spiders aren't usually dangerous to humans, if they get caught in your clothing they might give you a little nip on the skin. Please note that audiobooks and ebooks purchased from this site must be accessed on the Princeton University Press app. 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.

Mike Roberts re-drew all the pedipalps and epigynes and repainted the colour plates for this single-volume field guide. When the weather cools down, you may notice the eight-legged creatures coming into your home to keep warm.

Mike Norton, Trade and Projects Director at Magnet Trade, says: "Like all species, spiders need water and moisture to survive.

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? The huntsman spider is known for being dangerous in other countries but the UK has its own less harmful version – the green huntsman spider.In the UK, these spiders are predominantly found in the South and prefer to hide in shrubbery and in trees as opposed to on the ground, where they feel more vulnerable.