22 March 2007

strange spiders

This is a net-casting spider (of the Family Deinopidae = evil eyes), stick spider or ogre-faced spider. He dropped his net when I moved something out of the way to take the photo, his habitat is meant to be forests anyway, not my lounge room, and this prey catching net is a night time activity. It is either a very mixed up net-casting spider or something else entirely.

The breeze was wafting gently and after this photo I tried to get another but the breeze blew the spider too close and we both got a fright, spider scuttled off and so did I.

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