One of the reasons I like Linyphiidae is because you can find mature specimens all year round. Other very common spiders are often frustrating because they have such short seasons when the are mature and can be identified. In the last week I've had, for the first time this year, mature specimens of Metellina (mengei), Pardosa (pullata), Philodromus, Tetragnatha and Xysticus. It think it's summer. In a normal year this would signal the start of a mad couple of months of recording, before they all go away in the autumn and it's back to Linyphiids for the winter. This year ... who knows?
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