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I hope you enjoyed the 'Spiders in Borneo' series on the Expeditions blog as much as I did! Adventures, photos, science, ruminations about the meaning of it all, and obviously - Wayne Maddison and the team had so much great fun and conveyed it all to use so vividly!
If you missed it, or want to re-read the whole series, here are all the posts, in order they were published:
Spiders in Borneo: Introduction
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Spiders in Borneo: Undiscovered biodiversity
Spiders in Borneo: The guests of honor: Salticidae
Spiders in Borneo: Team Salticid
Spiders in Borneo: Mulu National Park
Spiders in Borneo: Dreaming about salticid spiders
Spiders in Borneo: Jumping spiders in the forest
Spiders in Borneo: Beating around the bushes
Spiders in Borneo: Spiders in leaf litter
Spiders in Borneo: A Vertical Life
Spiders in Borneo: Leeches and eyeballs
Spiders in Borneo: What I carry
Spiders in Borneo: Breaking News!
Spiders in Borneo: Falling from above
Spiders in Borneo: Entangled and pierced
Spiders in Borneo: Scattered literature
Spiders in Borneo: Mulu wrap-up
Spiders in Borneo: Lambir Hills
Spiders in Borneo: Replaying the Tape of Life
Spiders in Borneo: More Hispo at Lambir
Spiders in Borneo: Geometrical Jumping spiders
Spiders in Borneo: Trees that grow from sky to ground
Spiders in Borneo: The spiders who wouldn’t be
Spiders in Borneo: The Music of Biodiversity
Spiders in Borneo: Jumping spider rainbow
Spiders in Borneo: Top ten animal encounters