It's that time of year when all the insect pests like to have a munch on our citrus trees, and the brightly coloured bronze orange bugs were my target this morning. While knocking a few of the big galoots out of the foliage, onto the ground, I disturbed this little spidery person, who I had never seen before.
Once I'd taken the photos it only took me the first few seconds of Google searching to find out its formal name, at this Spiders of Australia website. Then another quick Googling deposited me on this handy website which is the "fan page" devoted to Diaea evanida. |
Oh well, even if they don't do my work for me in the citrus trees, it's nice to finally meet them and know yet another fascinating little person with whom we share our garden.
He is a cutie - and a useful friend to have in the garden :-)
ReplyDeletehe is more beautifully dressed than our flower/crab spiders. But you did take an outstanding and detailed picture ...
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