Cheshire is full of oak trees and on the 02/07/25 I finally beat the right one. It was at Swanlow Park Cemetery SJ651640, when a female Araneus triguttatus was beaten from the lower branches of a youngish oak tree. It is a fairly recent cemetery (2008) and natural burial ground, set in open countryside and incorporating some of the original mature trees and hedgerows as well as having recent plantings. There is a traditional graveyard at the front of the cemetery (abutting the road) with the woodland burial site to the rear. Each natural burial plot has a stone marker and a standard tree planted on the top of it, with the first burial areas starting to turn into woodland. There are several small fields to the side and rear, so plenty of room for expansion.

Although A. triguttatus can be elusive, this species should be widespread across Cheshire.   My own experience of this species in Leicestershire also found that A. triguttatus aeronauts as an adult and subadult so could turn up almost anywhere.