Comfort listening to old TMA, as you do.
> And then I noticed the crack.
>
> It seemed to split the floor right down the middle; it was jagged, vicious, like something had torn out the ground with a hook. It was maybe a foot across at its widest, and so dark inside it made my teeth ache. I’m not sure how I saw it. Thinking now I know that there wasn’t any light down there, but… that horrid gap was clear as day, darker than just the simple lack of light that surrounded it. And then I was at the edge looking down, and those eight spindly arms reaching up to pull me in. I couldn’t have screamed even if I wanted to.
Me: _Segestria florentina_.
The Archivist: …Are you *sure*?
Me: South of England, lives in a crack, waits for prey with legs hanging out? _S. florentina_.
The Archivist: It's just, it sounds like it was rather la—
Me: That's how you can rule out _Segestria senoculata_. Way smaller.
Comparison images:
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44374986
- https://srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p/Picture/r/view/s/Segestria+florentinas+waiting+for+prey
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28929555
More info (PDF): https://britishspiders.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-08/Segestria_online.pdf
Transcript and links: https://snarp.github.io/magnus_archives_transcripts/episode/114.html
#TheMagnusArchives #tma #spiders (cc [@Alice_Swaggen](https://flipping.rocks/@Alice_Swaggen ) as always)
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