Spiders

Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread…

Spiders of Australia: an introduction to their classification, biology and distribution [Repost]

This book introduces the Australian spider fauna and includes many species that are well known to Australian biologists, naturalists, gardeners and pest controllers. Spiders of Australia provides for the first time information on a vast spectrum of the Australian spider fauna and illustrates and describes over 150 species in some detail. Many other species are mentioned and discussed and a thorough summary of spider morphology, biology and classification is also provided.

National Geographic - Incredible Spiders (2016)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2435 Kbps | 43mn 58s | 843 MiB
Audio: English AC3 192 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

Our planet is home to thousands of spine-tingling spiders that come equipped with strange features and bizarre behaviours. Over millions of years spiders have dominated almost every habitat on Earth – from the jumpers and hunters to the engineers and dancers, we delve into the world of Incredible Spiders.