| Spiders and harvestmen
      Top l to r: zebra spider, house spider; bottom l to r: garden orb-web spider, Leiobunum rotundum (a harvestman)© All: Roger Key/English NatureAll spiders are carnivorous and account for innumerable flies, aphids and other invertebrates. In turn, they are themselves eaten by common lizards and slow-worms; by many birds, including nuthatches, treecreepers and various species of tit, and by small mammals including the woodmouse. Harvestmen, which superficially resemble spiders, are also predators of other animals including slugs, snails, woodlice, millipedes, centipedes - and spiders. Among the creatures that eat harvestmen are some birds, common lizards, beetles, centipedes and hedgehogs. However, harvestmen are able to produce a secretion from glands on their body which evidently deters some potential predators such as blue tits and house sparrows. PlantsHoneysuckle PreyCommon green grasshopper, Common wasp, Currant clearwing moth, Fast woodlouse, Field grasshopper, Garden tiger moth, Ladybirds, Meadow grasshopper, Speckled bush cricket PredatorsBlackcap, Blue tit, Brown long-eared bat, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Coal tit, Common damselbug, Common frog, Common lizard, Common shrew, Common wasp, Cuckoo, Dolichovespula media, Dunnock, Garden warbler, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great spotted woodpecker, Great tit, Green woodpecker, Grey wagtail, Hornet, House sparrow, House spider, Leiobunum rotundum, Lesser spotted woodpecker, Linnet, Long-tailed tit, Marsh tit, willow tit, Meadow pipit, Nuthatch, Pied wagtail, Red ant, Redpoll, Redstart, Reed bunting, Robin, Spotted flycatcher, Starling, Swift, Tree sparrow, Treecreeper, Whitethroat, Window spider, Wood mouse, Wren, Yellow-necked mouse, Yellowhammer Spiders and harvestmenCrevice spider, Cucumber green spider, Garden orb-web spider, House spider, Leiobunum rotundum, Linyphia triangularis, Misumena vatia, Neobisium muscorum, Red velvet mite, Tent spider, Tetragnatha extensa, Window spider, Woodlouse spider, Xysticus cristatus, Zebra spider |
