A wolf in my garden

Spider-of-the-day, a perfectly amusing wolf spider, a native to be found in most New Zealand gardens – Anoteropsis hilaris. With eyes arranged…

Letterbox Spider

The Tiny Green Letterbox Spider, Eriophora cursorium*. As found by my letterbox, and posing here in its natural environment, on…

Evening in the Bay

I spent the weekend in Hawke’s Bay – the water and hills were ridiculously scenic, especially in the still warm evening.…

Looking both ways

Next in the “All My Friends Are Robots” series, an accident of posing meant I could make one eye look through the mask, to…

Probably not Beelzebub

There are at least 240,000 species of flies, the internets tell me, albeit less than half have been properly described. Some varieties are…