Living together with nature becomes part of what makes Canberra genuinely unique as a place to call home, however that relationship with the natural world features trade-offs that citizens learn to navigate over time, and few are more immediately felt than the routine existence of spiders within

Canberra's special layout as a deliberately developed bush capital-- featuring expansive green corridors and nature reserves that cut directly through residential areas such as Aranda, Cook and Hughes-- provides best conditions for spiders to take a trip freely from bushland into backyards, makin

Canberra's bond with its natural surroundings forms the city's identity-- attentively developed green corridors, large parklands, and bush reserves woven into domestic districts produce a habitable setting that many capitals can just admire. Yet this intimate nearness to native bush likewise guar