DARLING ARACHNIDS
... can be found all around us, keeping the ecosystem in check so that your home isn't overrun with insects, or worse. Love them or fear them (which, really, isn't necessary), spiders are a vital part of our world and affect our lives drastically. This collection is a catalogue and amateur survey of:
SPIDERS IN AND AROUND ORANIA
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A local baboon spider, known also as a tarantula of the old world.
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The lobed garden spider, often confused for their cousins, A. australis.
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The brown button spider, found all across the world, and also known as the brown widow.
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What South Africans affectionately call the Daddy-Long-Legs spiders, gentle giants found everyone here.
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The grass running spider, or the false crab spider.
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A humble ground-dwelling nursery-web spider.
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The gentle false house button spider.
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A small teddy-bear of a huntsman spider.
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The southern funnel nursery-web spider.
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The cape arid long-spinnered desert spider.
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The tropical tent-web spider.
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The dark sac spider.
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The green lynx spider.
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The big-eyed igloo spider.
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The common house sac spider.
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The long-spinnered ground spider.
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And remember, spiders are friends.
• All images are Copyright © 2022 Anike Kirsten •
