Wild and Wonderful

  We looked out the window yesterday morning at about 10.30 ... and were greeted with the sight of this rather magnificent toad. This is the...

Today's sighting: Wasp Spiders at Snape, Suffolk You can see the web and the start of a stabilimentum Underside - with bound-up grasshop...

  Sadly there was no sign of the Wasp Spider today. In other years they have usually hung around for a few weeks, so perhaps the conditions...

  We have been keeping an eagle eye out for these colourful spiders, unlike the False Widows under our porch, which are, I feel, rather too ...

  What an age it seems since I last posted on this blog. There have been various reasons (largely Christmas plans and festivities); but here...

Female Wasp Spider, home patch We first encountered these fascinating spiders ( Argiope bruennichi ) in September 2020. Between 5th and 9th ...

    Having kept a careful eye on last year's Wasp Spiders and then their extraordinary egg-sacs, we were beginning to think that the sm...

  Those who follow this blog will know that last summer we encountered Wasp Spiders in our Suffolk garden for the first time. We also notic...