He hopes his find will inspire more people to conquer their fear of spiders 🕷
At 2mm in length, the cryptachaea blattea spider has been found in a few isolated places in the south of England but only been found inMr McEwan said: “Initially I didn’t think it was anything important, but then I shared some photographs with some friends I knew on social media who were more spider savvy and better at identifying these things than I was.”
He said: “I spent the next 11 days up at the same site just trying to find another one so I could get some really clear photographs, especially of the identifying features of the spider.”Mr McEwan, who works in customer service, hopes his find will inspire more people to conquer their fear of spiders.
The rare cryptachaea blattea, originally from Australia, may be spreading further north in the UK due to the changing climate. He said: “I was always used to just finding spiders which were very common and widespread, so to be able to find something like this, I’m really, really ecstatic about it.
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