Challenging Habitat Blog

Outdoor Daily

Curiosity got me an encounter with Thekla. Beautiful. Since ‘Thekla‘ was a spider’s name in a kid’s story from my childhood, all spiders have this name for me…. I guess this one is of the species Amaurobius ferox,… Read More

Outdoor Daily

Sometime it’s worth keeping your eyes glued to the ground. Atypia affinis is a hunting spider that waits for prey to walk across its tuba shaped net spilling out of its burrow. Then it rushes out, stabs its… Read More