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Spiders - the Exhibition THE EXHIBITION 6 DEC 2019 UNTIL 4 MAY 2020 Media Kit An exhibition developed & toured by the Australian Museum & Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre Lynx spider Photo © Robert Whyte Spiders - The Exhibition Spiders are awesome - they can spin webs, climb, swim, dance, parachute and they can even drop a limb when threatened and grow it back. Found on every continent in the world except Antarctica, spiders are one of nature’s great success stories. Spiders - The Exhibition at Queensland Museum will give visitors an eight-eyed insight into the amazing world of arachnids. Providing a combination of immersion and information, Spiders - The Exhibition showcases the latest science surrounding arachnids that allows the visitor an up close glimpse into the fascinating world of spiders. Spiders - The Exhibition features fascinating interactive displays, along with more than 200 spider specimens including live Australian tarantulas, funnel-webs, redbacks and giant water spiders. Spiders - The Exhibition will be a once in a lifetime experience, with engaging and fun interactives for all ages. Come and get an eight-eyed insight into the amazing world of arachnids when Spiders - The Exhibition opens at Queensland Museum on 6 December, 2019. Spiders - The Exhibition is a joint project between the Australian Museum and Questacon – The National Science & Technology Centre, Canberra and will run at Queensland Museum until 4 May 2020. Wolf spider, Hoggicosa bicolor Explore the Exhibition – Themes What is a Spider Spider Survival Visitors to Spiders – The Exhibition Just how these creatures have are dared to enter into the world survived millions of years all over of hunting, burrowing and weaving the world is unveiled through spiders and learn the origin of an explanation of venom, silk, arachnids from a time before movement, vision and vibrations. dinosaurs. This is illustrated with This content involves hands- fossils and amber from the Australian on interactives, models and live Museum collection. deadly Funnel-web and Redback Spider specimens. Spider Diversity and Distribution Spider Science and The diversity of spiders is a major Discoveries theme of the exhibition and a family There is a constant stream of new tree illustrated with real spider science discoveries in the field of specimens begins the journey into arachnology and venom and silk understanding some of the 48,000 + technologies that are highlighted in species from around the world. the exhibition through interviews Using 3D scanning technology an with scientists. interactive touchscreen demonstrates Traditional Aboriginal knowledge spider anatomy as visitors virtually systems are also included to add to dissect and view spiders from the our understanding of spiders, silk inside out. and venom. Spiders inhabit just about every corner of the globe and the range of habitats can be explored though touchscreens Queensland Museum with audio visual content and Research interactive spider environments. Queensland Museum arachnologists undertake research to document Spider Reproduction biodiversity and learn about our changing environment. Taxonomy Stunning world-first footage of the — the identification of new species phenomenal 3mm long Peacock of animals — is a core component Spider and his mating ritual introduce of the Museum’s research program. the visitor to the dangerous world of Learn more about four new species spider reproduction. of trapdoor spiders that have recently been discovered and described by Queensland Museum scientists. These new species have been given the common name of Palisade Trapdoor Spiders because their distinctive burrows protrude out of the ground like miniature turrets or towers. MEET THE SPIDERS Most Spiders are smaller than your thumb, but they have a mighty reputation. Venom and silk are their superpowers and they save us from a world that would otherwise be overrun with insects. At Spiders – The Exhibition, you can find out how these amazing animals have become one of the most successful creatures on Earth. Chances are you’re always close to a spider. A useful way to get to know spiders is to group them according to their lifestyles. Hunters, burrowers and weavers differ in the way they catch their food (prey) and how they use silk. Come face to face with 12 live spider species during your visit to Spiders - The Exhibition. Here you can meet some of the amazing arachnids that will make Queensland Museum their home until 4 May 2020. WATCH SPIDERS COME TO LIFE! Watch the spiders come to life by scanning images from the Spiders exhibition with the Spiders Augmented Reality app! You can make them dance, snap a picture with them and keep the Peacock Spider as a pet. Spiders that are featured in the app include: • St Andrews Cross Spider • Queensland Whistling Tarantula • Wolf Spider • Redback Spider • Red headed Mouse Spider • Peacock Spider Uncover the secrets of these under-appreciated arachnids by downloading the Spiders AR to your Apple or Android device today! Don’t forget to share your experience on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with #qldmuseum The Spiders exhibition is a joint exhibition between the Australian Museum and Questacon. Please note: Visitors are not permitted to handle live spider specimens Giant Water Spider Green Jumping Spider Scientific Name: Megadolomedes trux Scientific Name: Mopsus mormon Distribution: East coast Australia, from Sydney to Distribution: Northern Australia Queensland. Habitat: Amongst green foliage (arboreal) Habitat: Riparian zones of slow moving to still Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. bodies of water (flat water). Adult Size: 16mm body length. Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 6 months to 1 Diet: Insects; flies, crickets, dragonflies; and year as adults. smaller spiders. Adult Size: 160mm leg span and 25mm body length. Behaviours: Found amongst green foliage where Leg span can reach 180mm. green body camouflages. Diet: Insects (larvae and adult), small Large eyes forward facing providing tadpoles and small fish. wide range view, probably in colour, Behaviours: They can walk across and float on the smaller eyes facing side and back water with the help of a dense covering showing a blurry wider peripheral vision. of hair on the legs that trap air pockets Will stalk prey until in reach (2-3cm) and a hydrophobic exoskeleton that where it will pounce on top of prey, repels water. using comparatively large chelicerae to Megadolomedes can run quite fast on crush and envenom. water and land. On water, they propel themselves with the inner two pairs of legs and use the front pair to detect ripples or vibrations from possible prey. They can dive and stay underwater for a while by trapping air bubbles with their dense hairs. They can detect prey by detecting water vibrations with sensory slits in their legs (mostly their front pair). They hang upside down from rock overhangs, plants or sticks to moult their exo-skeleton. They have been seen wriggling their tarsus or their palps to lure fish. Social Huntsman Spider Net-casting Spider Scientific Name: Delena cancerides Scientific Name: Deinopis sp. Distribution: South-western and eastern mainland Distribution: All over Australia. Australia and Tasmania. Habitat: Suspended in low lying vegetation in Habitat: Under the loose bark of trees, mostly woodland, grasslands and urban areas. Blackwood, Acacia melanoxylon, Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. and River Red Gum, Eucalyptus Adult Size: Up to 3cm body length. camaldulensis. Diet: Terrestrial insects such as crickets, Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. cockroaches and beetles. Adult Size: 140mm leg span and 30mm body length. Behaviours: Makes a small web of a few strands of Diet: Insects such as beetles, crickets, silk from which it suspends, holding a net cockroaches and slaters. made from silk with its front pair of legs. Behaviours: After mating with female, the male will Will build over a dry leaf directly below go off to mate with other females while which it marks with white dots of urate. the gravid (pregnant) female will seal It uses these as targets. Once a prey the bark to the tree with really strong item walks over the white dot, the spider webbing and lay small green eggs into a throws the web-net over it. flat purse made from her silk and wrap The front middle pair of eyes (Posterior it up. Median Eyes) are considerably enlarged The young will hatch inside the sac and and are better at gathering light in the stay there until their first moult. dark than a cat or an owl. The mother will then tear open the sac The light sensitive retina (that causes and the young will gather around the their eyes to shine in torch light) is mother’s area. destroyed by the light at each dawn due She will share her food until they to not having eyelids, however, unlike can catch their own and share it any bird or mammal, this membrane is between themselves. reconstructed every evening. Rather than leaving the mother, they will stay with her and continue to catch and share food with their siblings until they mature. The older siblings will even watch the next egg sac, while the mother goes off to hunt. They will generally disperse when they reach maturity or sub-adulthood. Sydney Funnel-web Spider Redback Spider Scientific Name: Atrax robustus Scientific Name: Latrodectus hasseltii Distribution: Endemic to Sydney, as south of Illawarra, Distribution: All Australia as west as the Blue Mountains and as Habitat: Dark areas in woodlands, grasslands and north as Central Coast. urban areas. Habitat: Damp Forest and urban areas, often Lifespan: Up to 3 years, approx. 2 years as adult. under rocks or wood. Adult Size: 12mm body length (females) Lifespan: 3-10 years. Diet: Invertebrates and small vertebrates, Adult Size: 35mm body length whatever it can catch in its web. Diet: Insects. Behaviours: Builds a web in dark places with strands Behaviours: Will burrow down with a funnel like of silk coming down.
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