Symmetry in Kowhaiwhai

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The Life of a White Tail Spider

Did you know that rather than spinning a web to capture food, their preferred prey is other spiders? It is not native to New Zealand.

Habitat

White tail spiders live under stones, under leaves, in towels and shoes. They live there because it's dark, just like it is in the Frankley School Bush environment.

Diet   

A White tail spider eats red back spiders and daddy long legs and brown house spider and they also eat other spiders. But they don't spin a web to catch their food, they use their predators webs.  White Tail Spiders have bad eyesight so they go at night.        

Protection         

White tail spiders protection is using their fangs. In their fangs there is poison. The spider often hides in clothing, especially if it is left lying around on the floor

The Whitetail Spider is a very sneaky spider that has spread through New Zealand with ease, and although we have them in our Frankley School bush we probably have more inside the classroom than in the bush..

Written by Finn