Even those of you not interested in harvestmen can help look
out for this very long-legged (up to 20cm across) and often gregarious species
of unknown origin or name.
Ian Morgan and Sam
Bosanquet have provided a number of links including this one which is an
interesting read if you have a spare couple of minutes:
http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds3/arachnidsleiobunumsp.htm
Fascinating. Has it been seen anywhere else yet; ie Wales? The article says the first find was 100mm legspan, but I see you mention 20cm. I will keep an eye out for a very large, dark harvestmen anyway!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have any records of it at SEWBReC, but then it's hard to record things before they have a name!
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is out and about near docks they may be good places to look perhaps? I can have a look in the vicinity of the airport!
ReplyDeleteNot quite as exciting, but I've just found a female Leiobunum blackwalli in the Butterfly Conservation office yard in Swansea. Barry has posted some nice photos of this species on his Gower blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://goweros.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/leiobunum-blackwalli-in-gorseinon.html