Today I met
a spider man, the editor of the newsletter for the British Society of
Arachnologists, who told me that Wales was an amazing place for spiders. We walked
a few minutes up the path from the foot of the Great Orme, at the Deganwy end, until
we were in a spider hotspot. Some of the spiders were very rare indeed, hidden
inside crevaces on the cliff face, with tubular cobwebs in which to snare their
prey.
He used an
electric toothbrush to con the spiders into thinking they’d caught some prey,
and this is what it looked like:
Not a tarantula but a house spider.
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