Social Spider Web

Pretty sure this is a social spider web- a spider species whose individuals form relatively long-lasting aggregations. Whereas most spiders are solitary and even aggressive toward other members of their own species, some hundreds of species in several families show a tendency to live in groups, often referred to as colonies. There were masses of them throughout the bush here.

Gill Goes... Trekking The Bibbulmun Track End to End... Monadnocks Shelter

May 10th 2016
Day 6 Canning Temp Camp to Monadnocks Shelter km's - who knows, officially 27.4, maybe 30 plus-ish Today was a 6 hours of walking (and 1.5 hrs of stopping) on the really long gravel powerline road day. The start of the day was awesome- my first experience of packing up a soaking wet dewy tent (I'm sure the backpack weighed at least 2kg more with the wet tent!) and then a dewy, misty, atmosph ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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