Britain's Spiders: A Field Guide

by Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford, Helen Smith

Britain’s Spiders is a photographic guide to all 37 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. Illustrated with a remarkable collection of photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new to spider identification. This book pushes the boundaries of field identification for this challenging group by combining information on features that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens with additional evidence from webs, egg-sacs, behaviour, phenology, habitats and distributions. Individual accounts cover 395 of Britain’s approximately 670 species, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained.

As the first photographic field guide to British spiders to be published since 1989, this book fills a major gap in the resources available to everyone with an interest in this fascinating, diverse and important group of animals.

480 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2017

Reviews

[CSicula]

This remains the best field guide for spiders, has all the detail into ID that you would want, with location data, seasonal data, and how to differentiate similar species. Would have liked more detail into some of the more common linyphiids though!

Would recommend for both arachnid ID veterans and people who want to learn (I successfully managed to self-teach myself ID just from this book, which is exactly what you want for an ID guide!)