Spiders : learning to love them /
""Yet again I was screaming in the night" is the opening sentence in this book. The author decided to deliberately overcome her fear of spiders by observing and studying them, and learning as much as she could about them. As well as being an authoritative book on spiders this book is...
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Crows Nest, N.S.W. :
Jacana Books,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Arachnophobia
- Spiders, spiders everywhere
- Garnishing the garden
- Let's get physical
- Classification challenges
- The hunters and the hunted
- Live long and primitive : the mygalomorphs
- No-one does it like a spider
- Murderous or misunderstood : the spider bite
- Changing the image
- Appendix 1. Spider families
- Appendix 2. A guide to the silken clues
- Appendix 3. A guide to spider-spotting equipment
- Appendix 4. Observation sheet.