Henrard, A. 2023. ‘Don't leave your socks lying around: if the Jay sees them, you're dead meat! On the Purseweb spider (Atypus affinis Eichwald, 1830) as prey of the Eurasian jay’. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1). ISSN: 2795-8957.  (PR).

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The present paper describes peculiar observations made by the author on Purseweb spiders (Atypus affinis Eichwald, 1830, inhabiting his home’s plot in Bousval (Belgium), and which occasionally succumb to predation by Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius Linnaeus, 1758).