A HORSHAM family were amazed to find a strange spider in their garden this month.
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Angela Matheson said her daughter Kirilly, 11, was learning how to trim the hedge in the garden when she made the discovery.
“I thought I knew all about the bugs that we could expect to find in our yard, but this one certainly was strange looking,” she said.
“It was about one centimetre in size, so counting its legs was difficult.”
Ms Matheson said after some quick research online the pair discovered it was a spiny orb-weaver.
“Sure enough, the next day it had built a beautiful circular web,” she said.
Ms Matheson said she had never seen these spiders before and thought other Mail-Times readers would be interested in the discovery.
