Few things interrupt the comfort and sense of safety within a home quite as successfully as a spider encounter at the incorrect moment, and in Canberra, where the diversity and density of local spider types is shaped by the city's unique position within a greatly vegetated, high-altitude environm

Canberra's bond with its natural surroundings forms the city's identity-- attentively created green corridors, large parklands, and bush reserves woven into residential districts produce a habitable setting that many capitals can only appreciate. Yet this intimate closeness to native bush also gu