‘Nawr’ yn y de!!! 
Are these the kind of caterpillars that shed their spines and are quite nasty to pick up? Because, if so, that pic was quite brave of you!!
Well i don’t think there is any problem with these, there a couple of species with which i would be wary. May add they were found in a garden as were today’s photo’s. So its worth looking.
Gwrachen gron - pill woodlouse (several species of these but it seems to fit the description).
Eirin - Plums. (ignore image caption).
Pryf genwair / Mwydyn - common earthworm.
Cheers J.P.
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[quote=“ramblingjohn, post:682, topic:971”]
Eithin - Plums.[/quote]
Actually - isn’t eithin the word for gorse? And plum is eirin? (Well, at least my dictionary gives pren eirin for “plum tree”)
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Many thanks Sionned, working form memory will be my downfall.
Cheers J.P.
Oh dear, dear John, I am not asking for you not to post pics of arachnids, just for a warning!! (If it is a raft spider, a specially big warning!!!). Something like:
WARNING COPYN
above the pic, so we know what is coming and can fast forward, or at least be prepared!!!
I don’t need to look for woodlice they seem to turn up everywhere!!!
I wish we’d had plums this year… our first without since our Victoria started fruiting!! It’s all to do with the melting ice caps cooling the north Atlantic and making us cooler while the world in general heats up!! Oh, bliss!! 
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As a fellow arachnophobe, I understand you very well:) Though I found that looking at the photos of Salticidae (small jumping spiders) helps a lot in coping with my fear of these creatures. (I didn’t even scream when I saw the wasp spider picture in question, which is a huge achievement for me!) I don’t know if they live in the UK, but there are plenty here, and they are all very small and look cute. They actually remind me more of aliens or cartoon characters than of spiders. I’d be curious to know their Welsh name, if there is one. Maybe somebody here knows it?
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I guess your are pulling our legs, for we all know you get the gulf stream there hence palm trees on your beach. (how is the coconut crop this year).
Well, i’m not sure they are considered naturalised here yet, There is only one record of them found in wales (so no welsh name i know of), they have been recorded mostly near south and east coasts of britain, I guess they arrive here by ballooning as many spider do to spread into new area’s. The one i photographed was rather big.
Broga / Llyffant melyn - Common frog (rescued from building site, that hole is now full of concrete).
Just of out to moth traps which should run over night, back out early in the morning for hopefully some interesting insects. (trychfilod diddorol)
Cheers J.P.
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I think the spiders that Stella was referring to were these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider
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Yes, exactly:) They’re commonly considered very cute and are even believed not to provoke arachnophobia even in people who are most severely affected by it.
@ramblingjohn
Thank you very much for the previous picture! I’m a very big fan of llyfantod.
Diolch iawn, dw i angen i ddarllen yn ofalus beth pobl yn ysgrifennu.
Many thanks, i need to read carefully what people write.
Gwladwr yr hydref - Autumnal rustic.
Tortrics siecrog - Chequered fruit tree tortrix.
Carpiog awst - August thorn.
Cheers J.P.
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I thought people that follow this thread might find this interesting - the Dyfi Osprey Visitor Centre, which is between Machynlleth and Aberystwyth, is offering a session on names of wildlife in Welsh on Sat 19th, 2pm to 3:30.
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Many thanks Dee, if only it was closer.
Cheers J.P.
Yah, if only it was …
I asked if they were tweeting it, they said no. 
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I would have liked to go, but I will be at the Owain Glyndwr festival. I can’t do both :-(.
I found the pics on the web site stirred up my phobia!! Maybe they are enlarged too much? I’m not bothered by money spiders or even by a small spider that spent some time between breakfast and dinner spinning its web across my coffee mug. Poor thing was sitting in the middle, hoping for a fly when I drowned it with boiling water!! I had the kettle in hand, poised, and wasn’t expecting the copyn bach!! It’s the first time I’ve ever killed a spider by mistake and I felt really sorry!!
Male (black head) and female (brown head) goosanders (hwyaid danheddog) ar Afon Till yn y gwanwyn.
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Boneddigesau’r wig (Orange tip butterflies). I used an online dictionary so hope I have the correct Welsh name.
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Well, just for the record: The author of that
Simona Mlakar was extreamly happy when I told her how much of discussion was made out of this one single but yet magnificent photo. I also posted the link to our discussion in the comment to her photo on FB so she could take a look for herself … I presume she might serve us with some other great shot of other Alpaine animals in the future aswell, who knows. 
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Oh, I’m extremely sorry. I didn’t upload any of their pictures here together with my suggestion because, in fact, I was afraid that the effect might be the opposite and they might frighten someone. Maybe my phobia wasn’t too bad if I like them!
Yes, in reality these jumping spiders are normally 0,5 cm. Bach iawn.