Story: Spiders and other arachnids

More links and websites

• Spiders of New Zealand

  This section of Te Papa’s website links to information about many New Zealand spiders, with FAQs and tips on identification.

• Spiders in New Zealand

  On the Landcare Research site, this page links to information on the white-tailed and Avondale spiders.

• Soil bugs – Araneae

  This site includes information on New Zealand spiders.

• The World Spider Catalog

  The first searchable database of spiders from around the world.

More suggestions and sources

• Foelix, Rainer F. Biology of spiders. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Forster, Ray, and Lyn Forster. Spiders of New Zealand and their worldwide kin. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1999.
• Hillyard, Paul. The book of the spider. London: Pimlico, 1995.
• Pollard, Simon. I am a spider. Auckland: Reed, 2001.