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Eresus sandaliatus
Mariehøneedderkop
Ladybird Spider
One of the, if not the most strikingly gorgeous spiders I have had the good fortune to encounter. One of the very few places it lives in Denmark is on the heath, where I spent a lot of my youth.
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Pellenes tripunctatus
Treplettet Springedderkop
No common name in English?
This one has a somewhat embarrassing near-death history to it. I was using a pooter, and apparently, my lungs are better than I thought, so I swallowed the little fella. I coughed, hacked, and retched until I was beet red in the face and finally managed to spit out the poor bugger. I was certain I had killed it, but it was resilient and eventually came to.
After this experience, I got hold of a pooter with a protective grid 😅
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It has been a miserable season for mothing again. Last year, I excused it with a wet spring, the year before that a cold summer. This year, none of those excuses are valid. I am not catching anywhere near the same number of species as I did years ago. Despite upgrading my gear. I tested against my garden where I first started out mothing, and also set up the old trap to compare, and it's bad news. Fewer moths overall and drastically fewer species. Some moths that were common as dirt when I started out are showing up in smaller numbers or missing altogether. I did catch some awesome lifers, which is a nice consolation prize, but this season has me feeling sombre and despondent.
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