Great fox-spider rediscovered on MoD land in Surrey

[Judi Lynn]

Published 3 days ago

One of Britain's most endangered spiders has been seen for the first time in a generation.

The great fox-spider is listed as critically endangered and was feared extinct in the UK.

It had only ever been found at three sites, in Dorset and Surrey, and had not been seen since the early 1990s.

Mike Waite, who rediscovered the spiders on a Ministry of Defence (MoD) training area in Surrey, said he was "over the moon".

The arachnid enthusiast initially found some unidentifiable immature spiderlings on the site, managed by the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust, after "many hours of late night searching with a torch over the last two years".

More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-54755697

[jeffreyi]

1. Hooray!