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The spiders you don't usually see

Maori

  • You usually have to go into the bush to find our native species.
  • We have many species of spiders that occur nowhere else in the world, or are only represented by a few other species in the Southern Hemisphere. This is why New Zealand is so interesting to arachnologists.

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