If you keep your eyes on the ground as you wander through South Africa’s varied and wonderful habitats, you generally

And so to the last in our series. SAC SPIDERS, YELLOW SAC SPIDERS, HOUSE SAC SPIDERS, LONG-LEGGED SAC SPIDERS –

VIOLIN SPIDERS Family Sicariidae, genus Loxosceles  6 species Loxosceles bergeri, L parramae, L pilosa, L simillima, L speluncarum, and L spinulosa

Our button or widow spiders have neurotoxic venom (venom that affects the central nervous system). BLACK BUTTON OR WIDOW SPIDERS

Whilst not quite as badly maligned as snakes, spiders also tend to take the rap for many things they don’t

You might have seen dragonflies or damselflies (Order Odonata), either perching, or in flight, coupled together in what is described

Time for a small change, from Fauna to Flora. If you drive around Pilanesberg at the moment you can’t help

The following interesting article on antivenom was provided by Johan Marais, of the African Snakebite Institute. The only effective treatment