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Old 04-03-2015, 08:08 PM
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Arachnophobia cure - two pretty spiders discovered in Qld

Spiders do tend to get a bad press, and they do seem to give a lot of people a bad case of the horrors.

However, here are two very beautiful species of Peacock Spiders recently discovered in Queensland:

(1) Maratus jactatus (male)
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(2) Maratus sceletus (male)
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I, personally, think that spiders are rather nice.....indeed, I once shared a night in a motel room in Katherine with a spider that was the size of a large dinner plate!

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