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Simon Pollard's spider photgraphy

Simon Pollard has a PhD in evolutionary biology which focused on spiders, but is best known as a science communicator who loves writing especially for young people.

He is the co-author of Why is that Spider Dancing? The Amazing Arachnids of Aotearoa 

Author Simon Pollard looking for spiders in his garden (photo by Cynthia Cripps)

A jumping spider with its big forward-facing front eyes (photo by Simon Pollard)

An orbweb spider wraps a cricket in a shroud of silk (photo by Simon Pollard)

A flower spider waits to give a bug a hug (photo by Simon Pollard)

Female and male katipō (photo by Simon Pollard)

Why is that Spider Dancing? The Amazing Arachnids of Aotearoa is co-authored by Phil Sirvid, assistant curator of Natural History at Te Papa and spider biologist and award-winning science writer Simon Pollard.

The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.