Spider-style*

ageing (not aging)
antivenom (not antivenene)
Araneomorphae (but araneomorph (l.c))

backyard
bioengineering
bird-dropping spider
black lace-weaver
Blue Mountains funnel-web
bulletproof

cliché
cooperate, coordinate
creepy-crawly

daddy-long-legs
diving bell spider

field work
fruit fly
funnel-web

golden orb-web
Goliath birdeater

house spider
huntsman spider

judgement

ladder-web spider
life cycle

Mesothelae
mosquitos
Mount Everest
mouthpart
Mygalomorphae

nestmate
no-one
North America
nursery web spider

orb-web spider

Portia spider
purse-web spider

red-back
red rump

six-eyed sand spider
South-East Asia
St Andrews’s Cross
super-strong

tarantula
telltale
tent-web
trapdoor spider
trashline orb-web
tree-running praying mantis

ultraviolet

western
white-tailed spider
World War I, World War II
wrap-around spider

yellow sac

*The text of this poem is actually a slightly modified editorial style sheet,
and is used with permission of NewSouth Books and the editor
(accidental poet) of James O’Hanlon’s forthcoming volume
Silk & Venom: The Incredible Lives of Spiders
(which I highly recommend!)