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 August
2005
by Angela Hijjas
The long dry spell has finally broken: there was no rain at all from
26th July until 18th August, a period of 22 days without rain. Hopefully
Sumatra had rain too, to quell the peat fires.
The impressive speciment on the right was seen on a web suspended between
two nutmeg trees in Taman Sari, Rimbun Dahan. It is possibly Tetragnatha
sp, a large genus containing many long spiders. Tends to be light
coloured with a pale yellowish carapace, slightly darker legs, and the
abdomen covered dorsally with small closely packed gold or silver coloured
plates.
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