Tony Eales, Ambush hunters (ANIMAL & NATURE 2022)

I love spiders in the genus Arkys. These Australasian hunters sit perfectly still during the day, often relying on their strange shape to go unrecognised as spiders. This is a selection of some of the outrageous colour and morphology found in this group

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