Britain's Spiders av Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford, Helen Smith

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<p><b>A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a <i>Guardian</i> Best Nature Book of the Year</b><br><br>Now in a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, <i>Britain¿s Spiders</i> is a guide to all 38 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, 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 404 species¿all of Britain¿s ¿macro¿ spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained. This new edition includes nine species new to Britain, many recent name changes, updated