Spiders in the Brown Bin

I rescued this motley crew of spiders from the brown garden waste bin at the weekend. I’m sure that the depot where they take all the garden waste must be a really great place to look for bugs! Lots of spiders this time of the year…

#446 Clubiona terrestris

#65 European Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)

#103 Black Lace Weaver (Amaurobius ferox)

#704 Opilio canestrinii

Clover-root Weevil (Sitona hispidulus. #969)

Found this beetle in the brown compost bin after doing some gardening on Saturday. This bristly weevil’s larvae feed on the roots of clover plants, the adults appear in the late summer and over-winter in soil or leaf litter.

#969 Clover-root Weevil (Sitona hispidulus)

Angle Shades

This moth had somehow got its way into the brown bin along with all the garden composting waste. The Angle Shades has two generations, the Autumn one from August to November being the larger. It’s a nicely marked moth; I hadn’t noticed previously the way it turns up the outside edges of its wingtips to look more like a leaf.

#739 Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)

#311 Common Earwig

As of now this is only the second Earwig I found in the garden, though they are most abundant in the Autumn. This one was another stray picked up around the compost bin, flexing its pincers at me in a threatening way.