Appreciating Amazing Aussie Arachnids – CSIRO PUBLISHING
From alien butts to ant mimics, we leafed through the pages of A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia to find some great reasons to admire our eight-legged friends. Salticidae Grayenulla, a tiny Jumping Spider with an uncanny resemblance to Garfield. (Photo: Robert Whyte) Fear of spiders is learned, but the good news is that fear can also be unlearned, write Robert Whyte and Greg Anderson in their book, A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia . Many of us have felt it: we’ve jerked backwards...
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