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“So flat that when you turn them sideways you can’t imagine how their organs fit.” Those spiders are also very fast, and incredibly difficult to catch. Continuing upwards, the tops of the trees are home to a whole range of other, web-spinning and jumping spiders which have carved up the canopy habitat into many different micro-habitats.
To see for yourself, let a puff of cornstarch float off your hand through the shrubbery and watch the webs materialize out of thin air. Or come out at night with a flashlight. “Inside or outside, like it or not, you’re never very far away from a spider,” says Catley happily. “The chances are that as you read this a spider waits, minding its own business, not more than a yard or two away from you.”
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