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Water spider and diving beetle stacked image

Arachnid, beetles, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, spidersBy Neil-UKWildlife September 18, 2018 1 Comment

Back at the start of 2018 in was in the pond man lab experimenting with my photo aquarium set up. Its the 4th January and it was reasonably mild and my Water Spider Argyroneta aquatica was a bit active, so I popped it into the photo aquarium. for some shots. It climbed around the rush stems…

Water spider Argyroneta aquatica

Arachnid, Freshwater invertebrates, spidersBy Neil-UKWildlife January 5, 2017 Leave a comment

A couple of years ago I finally managed to get hold of a water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) and get some nice photos of this fascinating species They are the only fully aquatic spider species in the world. The live out a diving bell, which is a large bubble of air trapped in an underwater web.…