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Category: Spiders

  • Journey into the Spiderverse

    Journey into the Spiderverse

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Looking back at my phantasmagorical journey into the “spiderverse” is something I could never imagine in my younger days… creepy crawlies and eight legs to boot… The following photo is of a spider moult sitting next… Continue reading

  • Top End Spider Adventure

    Top End Spider Adventure

    Author Tissa Ratnayeke â—¦ Five fantastic spiders from around Darwin…🙂 Spiders are one of the most abundant fauna groups in our environment. They occupy just about every climate and habitat niche, including our homes, yet most people know very little… Continue reading

  • Time to play…

    Time to play…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Following on from our blog There’s more than size, when opposite attracts, another look at the escapades of the males and the female… when it is time to play for the Australian Goldern Orb Weaver Spiders… Continue reading

  • Wildlife… a taste of Alice

    Wildlife… a taste of Alice

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Who hasn’t heard about Alice Springs… it is a wild place… and home to more then just art and culture… it is home to many creatures big and small… Ok… we may not have the biggest… Continue reading

  • What a Wonderful World…

    What a Wonderful World…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ One of my favourite songs growing up is What a Wonderful World, as sung by Louis Armstrong… the words resonating in my working day and through my life… I see trees of green, red roses too…… Continue reading

  • Different enough superficially to make you think…

    Different enough superficially to make you think…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Sometimes a photograph can be definitive… especially when Google say this is Nyssus coloripes (Spotted Ground Swift Spider)… but the photo only shows white spots… And then you see the same but different spider (on the… Continue reading

  • Creatures so strange…

    Creatures so strange…

    Photograher Michael Doe â—¦ Creatures so strange…that maybe they only exist in fantasy and science fiction… Yet stare long enough…you are ensnared by their hypnotic beauty… Believe in the reality… Photographs © Michael Doe Now that’s a Wrap… | The… Continue reading

  • The beauty and the…

    The beauty and the…

    Photograher Michael Doe â—¦ Once upon a time…In a place not so far away…There was the beauty and the… There is a saying that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder…“ Photographs © Michael Doe Now that’s a Wrap…… Continue reading

  • Now that’s a Wrap…

    Now that’s a Wrap…

    Photograher Michael Doe â—¦ It is amazing what you observe… When it is in black and white… Dolphones species Wrap-around Spiders Photographs © Michael Doe Now that’s a Wrap… | The beauty and the… | Creatures so strange… Continue reading

  • Insignis and in health…

    Insignis and in health…

    Author Gary Taylor â—¦ Insignis and in health… 😄 Do you, Workshop Owner, take this spider to be your lawfully webbed companion..? 😅 I do… and at the fear of sounding like an arachnid polygamist (or at least like I’ve… Continue reading

  • Becoming a widow…

    Becoming a widow…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ I was engulfed by a wave of sadness when I came into work (after the weekend break). It had been a reasonable pleasant weekend for me, and although I knew the end was near, I was… Continue reading

  • Let us prey…

    Let us prey…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ I would love to tell you a tale… not any tail… in fact I am not sure what lizard tail this is, but I am thinking that the lizard got away by the skin of it’s… Continue reading