It’s the time of year that you’ll find spiders inviting themselves into your home — but what are they? Ian Morton runs down 10 spiders you’ll spot in Britain.
Spiders are everywhere. There are some 640 indigenous species in England and Wales, and in great numbers: a study of grassland in Sussex found 2.2 million individual spiders per acre, according to Ian Morton’s recent article for Country Life.
40 of those species are jumping spiders, which don’t weave…
