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From British Arachnological Society

Welcome to the Website of the British Arachnological Society. Here you can find information on those fascinating animals, arachnids. Our emphasis is on British spiders but we don't exclude other arachnids such as Harvestmen (opilionids), Pseudoscorpions and Scorpions. There are images, distribution maps, general and more specific information on the different groups and species and if you can't find the information that you're looking for, you can contact us directly and we'll try to help.

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Photos from last year's AGM are now on the Meetings' Page.

Spiders in the News and on the Web

	Spiders webs provide clues to aging
	Bigger chelicerae improve jumping spider’s mating chances
	Spiders target mate-luring signals from 'vibrating' insects
	A vegetarian jumping spider ?

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Meta bourneti on BBC Radio 4

In February of this year John Partridge, the BAS's then Secretary, guested on the Radio 4 programme "The Living World" in search of the uncommon cave spider, Meta bourneti. To listen to the programme, follow this link.

Links to the SRS page for Meta bourneti and the SRS page for Meta menardi.

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