I guess "little" is relative in Australia, eh? I just watched a slide show yesterday on the world's deadliest snakes, and a bunch of them were from Down Under. Throw in the spiders, and I get the creeps just thinking about it. I guess that's just part of daily life for you folks? Or is the danger of your many critters overhyped for sensationalism? Just curious.I can't remember if I posted these before. It just so happens to be in keeping with the spider theme.
I almost walked into this pebble hanging about above the decking outside the house a while ago:
I followed it up:
The pebble was acting as an anchor for this web:
So that means there's an intelligent spider-engineer around somewhere. I went to get a chair to stand on so I can follow the web to the other anchor points:
And found the little thing sleeping:
I guess "little" is relative in Australia, eh? I just watched a slide show yesterday on the world's deadliest snakes, and a bunch of them were from Down Under. Throw in the spiders, and I get the creeps just thinking about it. I guess that's just part of daily life for you folks? Or is the danger of your many critters overhyped for sensationalism? Just curious.