It's too cold and rainy to go outside today, but fortunately there's wildlife indoors, too!

This friendly little northern yellow sac spider (𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘪) waited calmly for me to run downstairs to grab my macro lens then posed sweetly before scampering off on the hunt once more.

#WebbyWednesday #WildlifeWednesday #IndoorWildlife #spider #invertebrates #NeverHomeAlone

Dark and scary in the cellar – an illustration from Island Spider

At the insistence of the lady who lives in the house the reporter has to go down into the cellar and he’s afraid of spiders.

Island Spider is the story of Harry, a very hairy tropical spider that gets caught up in a bunch of bananas and is transported to a far away land. After surviving various adventures he needs to try and get home. Luckily for him there are some locals to help him do it but will he be able to escape capture and find his way home?

The story is available as an ebook or as a printed A4 sized book globally on Amazon. Illustrations within the text are repeated at the back of the printed book so that they can be coloured in by younger children. This is the Amazon.co.uk link, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Island-Spider-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B084Z42CDC/ and this is .com, https://www.amazon.com/Island-Spider-Paul-No%C3%ABl-ebook/dp/B084RJDF3B/.

Our links

See more of Gerry Newton’s wonderful art, https://www.geraldnewtonart.com/.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy, shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of the artwork from some of my other stories.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

🕷️🏡 Experts at the International Society of #Arachnology say that the answer to the most common #spider depends on how you measure them.

The cosmopolitan cellar spider is found in nearly every #building on Earth because it travels with humans. However, the tiny money spider family might have the highest population density because they can cover entire fields in silk and drift through the air using a technique called ballooning.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/most-common-spider-world

#biology #nature #science #ecology #insects #wildlife #research #learning #education #arachnids