Araneus bradleyi Araneus bradleyi Araneus bradleyi, known as the enamelled spider, is a common Australian spider belonging to the family Araneidae. It occurs in Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, Australia. The body length of males is 8 to 9 mm and females from 14 to 18 mm. The abdomen has an enamelled appearance which varies in different parts of the country. In some areas different forms appear side by side. Some are a pure jade colour. The egg sac is round in shape, flat on the bottom where it is fastened down, of red brown silk of a woolly appearance.
Paradise garden Paradise garden The paradise garden is a form of garden of Old Iranian origin, specifically Achaemenid. Originally denominated by a single noun denoting "a walled-in compound or garden", from ""pairi"" ("around") and ""daeza"" or ""diz"" ("wall", "brick", or "shape"), Xenophon Grecized the Persian phrase ""pairi-daeza"" into ""paradeisos"". The idea of the enclosed garden is often referred to as the paradise garden because of additional Indo-European connotations of "paradise". The essential qualities of the paradise garden derive from its original, arid or semi-arid homeland. The fundamental quality is enclosure of the cultivated area, which excludes the wildness of nature and includes