Some leap from burrows on to passing insects, some hide in flowers, others stalk like hunters, and there's even one which traps a meal by using a confidence trick that seems hardly credible. Such is the everyday life of spiders.
The humour and the horror of some 'down-under' spiders has been captured by close-up camera work.
Narrated by DENSEY CLYNE and BARRY PAINE
Producers DENSEY CLYNE , JIM FRAZIER , Editors ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS BBC Bristol