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The British-Butt Spider

Posted by on May 22, 2007 in Explorer, Observer, Odds and Ends | 0 comments

The British-Butt Spider

Nicholas came run­ning up to the third floor yes­ter­day to pant, “Lorien! Where’s your cam­era?! There’s a spi­der with the British flag on its butt!” That’s a state­ment that’ll get me run­ning down the stairs. After, of course, I ask whether or not it’s yet been killed. “Not until we’ve got pho­to­graphic evi­dence!”, Nicholas replied. The spi­der didn’t quite have a Union Jack plas­tered across its bum, but I can see just what Nicholas was going on about: Google says that it’s a type of Redback spi­der, which is related to the Brown and Black...

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