The Coweb Spider or Daddy Longlegs Spider (Pholcus falangioides) stays indoors over winter and so is full size at this time of year. Outdoor spiders are usually at their peak in the autumn.
This character was in a web with the remains of a recent meal of woodlouse, skilfully captured here in my fiendishly clever spider trap - a glass tumbler.
Although they look frail they are the main predator of the big hairy Tegenaria house spiders, as you can see in this photo by Neil Massey.
Pholcus throws silk at the larger spider, or any other prey,
and when it is safely wrapped Pholcus injects the venom.
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