Biography: Lawrence Bee is an ecological consultant and educator and the author of the Field Studies Council's Guide to House and Garden Spiders. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Individual accounts cover 395 of Britain’s approximately 670 species, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained.

They are very rare but, on occasion, can be found in woodland from May to September and are most common in South England and Ireland. I can't think of a field guide to any group of organisms that is more densely packed with information than this guide to Britain's spiders. A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a Guardian Best Nature Book of the YearNow 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. The huntsman spider is known for being dangerous in other countries but the UK has its own less harmful version – the green huntsman spider.These are well illustrated by good quality photos and the concise text covers observation tips/habitat, description, distribution/Status and shows an indicative map. this book has scientific names for all species though out and most of them also have a common names too. Cardinal spiders can survive for months without food and got their name from a 14th Century legend claiming that Cardinal Wolsey saw one in Hampton Court and was scared of it.

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. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. this fine, good-value guide provides all you need to begin exploring the wonderful world of spiders. On the whole this is a very good book, well illustrated, and packed with useful information, and complements other books such as Roberts, but it does have faults.The first 130 pages give a brief but detailed introduction to spider anatomy, biology and study, together with well-illustrated keys to families and genera, and to web types and egg sacs. This spider lives in the UK but also abroad where, in places home to more venomous spiders, is often mistaken for the notorious black widow. Britain’s Spiders: A Field Guide is accessible to novices, but does not ‘dumb down’ its content to the extent that it will not be of interest to the more experienced [. Chunky, glossy and colourful, this is an exciting proposition, and only the second photographic guide to our spiders, following the long out-of-print Country Life Guide to Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Dick Jones, 1983). This species may be smaller in size compared to others, but they can move very fast (especially when they feel they are being attacked).