Most spiders don’t swim by choice. But they have clever tricks to survive in water when they need to.
- Vice Chancellor Research Fellow in Conservation Ecology, Edith Cowan University
We’re discovering more species of richly coloured peacock spiders all the time. But their small ranges puts them at very real risk. One species faces likely death by suburban sprawl.
There is little to fear and lots to love about spiders, which have not killed anyone in Australia for 40 years.
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