Showing posts with label Spiders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spiders. Show all posts

Monday, 19 May 2014

There's an arachnid in the class!

Our wonderful Jonathan LOVES bugs.  He delights us with them every week.  Jonathan has showcased a huge variety of local insect life for us to inspect!!!

Today he brought in the biggest spider we've ever seen with our own eyes.  It is called a Miturga in Australia, and a Uliodon in New Zealand.  It's common names are a Vagrant Spider or a Prowling Spider. 

We had to take this photo super fast because we could only open the lid for a short time... and we didn't want to get too close (they bite, but are not poisonous).  You can see how big it is compared to a lavender head!!!

Use the link below for close up photo's.
http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/spiders/vagrant-spider.html