Backyard Zoology · 30 March 2019
2019-03-30T08:20:25+11:00
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Imagine spending everyday of your life looking like a poo (many, many faces, float up in my mind's eye, but I push them back again as I'm practicing being a better human.)  In unrelated news, how's the general mood in your current work places? 😂😉

I wish I could say I found this little guy myself but alas, I am short and it was sitting high up. Matt who was being his taller than me self, came over and showed me a photo he'd taken and said, "Is this anything?" So for the spider, mission accomplished. I mean, who would want to eat a bird poo? It's an ingenious form of camouflage. 

There's a few different bird poo spiders in Aus but this particular one is a Bird Dropping Arkys or a Small Bird Dropping Spider. I've actually seen this colour form referred to, and not by wannabes like me I should point out, as the Brown Ice Cream Cake form, so yeah, that's a mash up I never thought I'd see!

Small Bird Dropping Spider
Northern Illawarra