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There are indeed a huge number of arachnids in Perth’s Kings Park, but they are not uppermost in the minds of many visiting humans.
In springtime, it is spider orchids that draw many people.
Many of those humans wish to photograph them.
In their photos of spider orchids, actual spiders’ webs, and/or individual threads of spider’s silk, are often clearly visible; one such filament is present in the featured image, above.
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A suitable title for this post’s hero:
The Lonely Spider
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Each of the headline’s descriptors applies to one or more of this post’s species – all blooming a deal less than a kilometre away from both a large shopping centre and one of Perth’s arterial roads.
For just about any “exceptional”, “extreme”, or “weird” form of flowering plant behaviour, southwestern Australia is the global hotspot.
One CommentThis single clump had eleven stalks and eighteen spider orchids.
Spring in Western Australia’s southwest is the greatest wildflower show on earth.
All photos in this post were taken on September 16, 2016, within a few metres of one road, a little off the Stirling Range’s eastern end.
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