A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia
Robert Whyte & Greg Anderson
The definitive guide into the fascinating world of the spiders of Australia.
Notorious species such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnel-web sit alongside less well known but equally intriguing spiders such as the ant-mimics and net-casting spiders.
- Features an introduction covering spider structure, evolution, reproduction, silk and venom, together with peculiarities of the family within an Australian context.
- Covers in the two main sections of the book Trapdoor Spiders and Modern Spiders, and within each section there is a chapter on each of the 80 or so spider families that occur in Australia.
- Each chapter is illustrated with beautiful photographs of the subjects, with more than 30 images per family for some of the larger groups such as the jumping spiders, and many rare images never before published.
- Written by three experts in the field.
