Over the late spring/summers of 2025/26 Philodromus collinus has been found widely in churchyards across Cheshire and once in North Wales (a single visit); usually being beaten from yew trees and bushes, occasionally from other evergreens. I found this species widely in Leicestershire during the late 1990’s/2000’s again by beating yews in churchyards and public parks. This species is obviously a lot more common than present records suggest with the species as likely to be found in urban/suburban as rural churchyards. Although P. collinus is mostly found in June and July females can be found until the first frosts.

The Cheshire records move P. collinus’s known distribution fifty miles northwest of previously known haunts; but it is likely to be hiding much further north and west.   Other spider species I frequently collected whilst beating yews include; Tetragnatha obtusa, Araneus sturmi, Hylyphantes graminicola, Hypomma cornutum, Ero aphana, Cyclosa connica, Gibbarena gibbosa and Philodromus albidus.