Africa Wild

Field Guide to the Spiders of South Africa - Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

I believe this book is now out of print, but is well worth tracking down 2nd hand
A comprehensive work on the Spiders of SA.
First chapter deals with general spider behaviour - breeding, webs, venom etc.
And then there is as genus by genus account of all known genera in SA, with many species photos, distribution maps etc.

I don't like spiders

Neither do I... and the cover photo reminds me of the "why not"

But Ex and others will be delighted about this recommendation

Interesting, Dzombs!

Dunno about other SA spider guides?

And a nice plush carpet background!

You did not have to read here, Nan

Richprins wrote:Interesting, Dzombs!

Dunno about other SA spider guides?

And a nice plush carpet background!

You seem to be monitoring the backgrounds of all my book photos

I do have another book on SA spiders, but it's in a lot less detail

This info. comes at a very opportune time for me, as I saw so many spiders recently in Kruger. Will definitely look for a copy.

Thanks so much for the info. Dzombo