Wolf Spider Runs from Fire

This pretty Wolf Spider beat a hasty retreat from the area we were hazard reduction burning yesterday at work.

The aim of hazard reduction burning is to reduce fine surface fuel, elevated fuel and bark fuel, which may help to lower the intensity and spread of bushfires in summer. Autumn and winter are the preferred times for these burns as they have less of an impact on birds and animals that mostly breed during spring and summer.

There was a mass exodus of bush cockroaches, beetles and skinks as well from our fire but this beautiful rusty patterned arachnid just caught my eye.