Author Koh Lin ◦
In my labour of love… series, we look at the spiders, from the big and the small, and the bold and the beautiful. A diverse group, spiders play an important role in the eco-system, whether out in the wild, in caves, in your gardens and your homes. Some are seen during the day, others at night. Some are small delicate looking arachnids, other look large and hairy. There are colourful ones, and some with strange appearances. You may stumble across spiders as they go about their business hunting for food, often not seen, until it is too late (that is if you are a bug 🙂).
- Green Lynx Spider (genus Peucetia)
- Cave Spider (in Baldocks Cave, Tasmania)
- Red-headed Mouse Spider (Missulena occatoria)
- Prowling Spider (genus Miturga)
- Striped Orb Weaver (Neoscona sp)
- Common Triangular Spider (Arkys lancearius)
- Plumed Peacock Spider (Maratus plumosus)
- Golden Orb-weaver Spider (Trichonephila edulis)
- Red-tipped Crab Spider (Sidymella rubrosignata)
- Longtailed Orb-weaving Spider (Argiope protensa)
- Barking Spider (Selenocosmia stirlingi)
- Shaggy-velvet Servaea (Servaea villosa)
- Magnificent Spider (Ordgarius magnificus)
- Running Crab Spider (family Philodromidae)
Check out our labour of love… spiders and prey
If you can’t get enough of our spiders, check out the following pages:
- Spiders
- Index of Spider Images | Spiders in Australia | Spiders Index | Spider sac
- Alice Springs Spiders by Andrew Turner / Koh Lin
- Arkys | Arkys Image Index
- Australian Huntsman Spider | Australian Huntsman Image Index
- Badumna insignis (Black House Spider)
- Calligaster (Group of Spiders)
- Celaenia sp
- Crab Spiders
- Desert Huntsman Spider
- Dolophones turrigera (Turreted Wrap-around Spider) – images by Michael Doe
- Encounter with Alice Springs Spiders by Koh Lin
- Euryopis umbilicata (Superb Ant-eater Spider) – images by Tony Earles
- Gnaphosidae (Stealthy Ground Spider)
- Hairy Crab Spider (Sidymella hirsuta) – images by Marianne Broug
- Journey into the Spiderverse by Koh Lin
- Let us prey… by Koh Lin
- Maratus hortorum – images by Michael Doe
- Maratus plumosus
- Maratus volans (Peacock Spider)
- Queensland Spiders | Queensland Spiders Index
- Servaea villosa (Shaggy-velvet Servaea)
- Tetragnatha sp (Long-jawed Spider)
- Top End Spider Adventure by Tissa Ratnayeke
You can also do a general search for “Spider” for many more pages…
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