A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia

“It may just change your mind about arachnids, and help you identify many of the spiders you have encountered. Not all are scary!” – Ally Jackson * Gardening Australia, August 2017 *“The spider imagery presented throughout this book is superb for its quality, variety and attention to detail. The over 1300 spider images, contributed by 62 photographers, are the stars of this book. Images of juveniles, intraspecific variations, undescribed and named species are all displayed… I thoroughly recommend this book for personal enjoyment, as a field guide or as a way to enthuse someone new to the field of Australian spiders.” – Ken Walker * The Victorian Naturalist 134(4), 2017 *

Robert Whyte is an honorary researcher in arachnology at the Queensland Museum, having developed an interest in spiders with the encouragement of arachnologist Robert Raven. He has participated in five Bush Blitz biodiscovery expeditions in remote parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. He is an accomplished editor, author and journalist, with skills in photography and publication design.

Greg Anderson is a biomedical research scientist and heads the Chronic Disorders Program at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane. He has been interested in spiders since his early life in Newcastle and has travelled extensively around Australia and other parts of the world studying and photographing spiders. He has a particular interest in Comb-footed Spiders.