Hi Ralph and Tony
A few years ago while looking for Gouldian Finches near Kakadu a field
assistant decided he would sleep on a tarpaulin laid out on the ground.
He awoke some time in the night yelling and making a dreadful fuss. It
seems a wolf spider had deposited all her babies with him and he was
covered with the tiny creatures!
Tony, just for you I won't repeat in detail my experience of waking one
night to find a brush-footed spider (Selencosmia crassipes) cuddling up
to my bare thigh. What made the situation even tricker was that if
bitten there was no way I'd be reaching a hospital for Iwas in a remote
area of the Mary River, (dropped in by helicopter) and it was raining
heavily. I stalked backwards till I reached safety. The spider was
removed with kitchen tongs, always a handy tool to have when camping!
And lastly on spiders, a friend suffering from depression found that
wandering around the backyard with a torch looking at the wondrous eyes
of wolf spiders changing in the light light Argyle diamonds, from cognac
to pink to ice-blue, comforted him.
Denise
Denise Goodfellow (Lawungkurr Maralngurra)
08 89818492
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