We have spiders that we accommodate in the ceiling corners of our house because we hope they deal to rogue mosquitoes and the like. Here’s one who looks like she’s in the process of perhaps eating the remainders of the hatchery. Cute!
I stumbled across the most bizarre-looking spider today up at our bit of land on the Kaipara Harbour. It’s a Poecilopachys Australasiae and, as the name suggests, it’s a visitor from Australia. It was guarding an enclosed web that had a spindle-shaped egg sac suspended in the middle of it. I wonder what natural selection process caused it to develop these strange features?
