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Thank you, Wayne (and the spiders, too)!

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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

Spiders in Borneo: Time traveller

Spiders in Borneo: Thank you Sarawak