| This stunning
Spider is only on the Nottinghamshire list after being
accidentally imported to a garden centre in 2006. A few
years ago, we were contacted by the garden centre owners,
informing us that it had reappeared again, having arrived
on plants imported from Italy. Males were seen in 2015
and 2016 and breeding was successful (per Brown, R.). The female below was one of two
found on large Phormiums in a poly tunnel, when
we visited the Upper Broughton garden centre in September
2016. There is a more recent record of a male, found with
a consignment of plants arriving at a garden centre at
Oxton in 2018 (Heeney,
W.). |
