Everything you ever wanted to know about red-backed spiders (but were afraid to ask)

By Roger Thomas
January 27 2020 - 7:00pm
A female red-backed spider
A female red-backed spider

Roger Thomas, The Courier's Nature Notes columnist, has covered an extraordinary range of flora and fauna in his writings over the years. In this occasional online series, we dig through the archives of a different subject or creature. Here, we uncover Roger's writings on one of the more notorious but commonplace of Australia's arachnids, the red-backed spider - frequently seen around Ballarat, especially at this time of year.

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