About the Author

Bill Fairweather is a retired primary schoolteacher, having taught for some 36 years, and currently resides in Raglan. He's always held an interest for all things arachnid and was spurred into further researching and writing from the continual fascination his students would have at school - including when he brought his colony of katipo to class! Don Horne is a natural history photographer of some note, having worked on a handful of works for both adults and children, including Mushrooms and Other Fungi of New Zealand (Reed, 2000), New Zealand Spiders (wallchart- Reed Children's Books, 2006), and Photographic Guide to Insects of New Zealand (New Holland, 2007).