The spider of the month is this female Stegodyphus sp. in the velvet spider family (Eresidae). Hannes Claassens hereby becomes our first three-time winner, and funnily enough, all three wins were with three different velvet spiders. It seems like Hannes has found a winning recipe. There are 20 recorded Stegodyphus spp. in the world, with … Read more

The spider of the month is this subadult male ogre-faced spider (Deinopis sp.), taken by Andrea Sander in Drummond, KZN. While she usually looks for these spiders outside at night, she found this one inside her house on a wall in the morning. She also said: “He was very chilled. The thing I found very fascinating is … Read more

The spider of the month is this subadult male pelican spider (Afrarchaea cornuta; family Archaeidae), found by Ruan Booysen in the Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, and photographed by me, Rudi Steenkamp. Ruan found him among some grass tussocks, and was quite excited because this was one of the spiders on his bucket list. He … Read more