Australia is an old, isolated continent and being an island has marooned many creatures past their use by date. For instance, the dreaded funnel web spider is really a very early model and should have gone to the wreckers ages ago. A Funnel Web Spider’s lungs are like the pages of a book and are […]
Tag: Spiders
A Dropping in our garden
One of the first residents in our garden was a spider. It spun a web from our new fence to one of our first plants. It sat motionless all day in full view of the hungry birds. At no time did I ever see it move. It sat with its legs tightly tucked into its […]