You would love Brisbane this time of the year. There is no ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. The inside is just like the outside, with all sorts of spiders and insects making their home in your bedroom, kitchen, ba Th room.
Is that spider “presenting” for a potential mate? If so that is a damn dirty picture.
christophsays
@Ray Ceeya, # 2: I think that’s a male peacock spider.
lakitha tolbertsays
#1 nomadiq
Uhm hm, yeah there is just waaay too much “nature” going on in Australia for me to be comfortable…
Thornaesays
Peacock spider!
Maratus is my favourite genus of my favourite spider family (Salticidae).
They are also around 5mm long IRL, and you’ll usually only spot them if you’re specifically looking for them. It’s nice of the museum to make this one a bit easier to see.
(CBS News has a very nice slideshow of a dozen or so different Maratus species – well worth a look).
Bah! Rank amateurs!
I know someone who was bitten by a spider while sitting on the yellow school bus mounted on the museum roof! (She swears that’s where it happened. I have my doubts… But at least it wasn’t a brown recluse bite. Those are horrifying.) https://www.citymuseum.org/things-to-do/installations/rooftop/
Salt
The only good thing about the current oversupply of melodious magpies in my Canberra, Australia neighborhood, is that they have eaten ALL of the usual oversupply of assorted hulking spiders, venomous and otherwise. Sorry, PZ! ;-)
Glenn Grahamsays
We went there over the school holidays, came in via the other side and we missed that beauty on the roof. Inside however there was a friendly looking redback of similar proportions.
Alt-Xsays
Haha was thinking of you when I saw this :)
saykesays
If you come to Brisbane, I will buy you a [drink of choice]!
You would love Brisbane this time of the year. There is no ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. The inside is just like the outside, with all sorts of spiders and insects making their home in your bedroom, kitchen, ba Th room.
Is that spider “presenting” for a potential mate? If so that is a damn dirty picture.
@Ray Ceeya, # 2: I think that’s a male peacock spider.
#1 nomadiq
Uhm hm, yeah there is just waaay too much “nature” going on in Australia for me to be comfortable…
Peacock spider!
Maratus is my favourite genus of my favourite spider family (Salticidae).
They are also around 5mm long IRL, and you’ll usually only spot them if you’re specifically looking for them. It’s nice of the museum to make this one a bit easier to see.
(CBS News has a very nice slideshow of a dozen or so different Maratus species – well worth a look).
Okay, that’s a lot of cute.
Bah! Rank amateurs!
I know someone who was bitten by a spider while sitting on the yellow school bus mounted on the museum roof! (She swears that’s where it happened. I have my doubts… But at least it wasn’t a brown recluse bite. Those are horrifying.)
https://www.citymuseum.org/things-to-do/installations/rooftop/
Salt
We’ve got big ones up here, too.
https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/life/video-spider-carving-in-downtown-campbell-river-gets-a-clean-up/
You would like it. Its a nice museum with an eclectic collection and displays.
There was this article in the news recently: Australian Reptile Park warns of funnel-web spider ‘bonanza’ due to wet weather
(Here in SA, redbacks are the thing)
Geckos. Everwhere you look its geckos here.
Beats the redeemer statue.
The only good thing about the current oversupply of melodious magpies in my Canberra, Australia neighborhood, is that they have eaten ALL of the usual oversupply of assorted hulking spiders, venomous and otherwise. Sorry, PZ! ;-)
We went there over the school holidays, came in via the other side and we missed that beauty on the roof. Inside however there was a friendly looking redback of similar proportions.
Haha was thinking of you when I saw this :)
If you come to Brisbane, I will buy you a [drink of choice]!