Australian spider settles in the Netherlands: already seen in Ede

“The special thing about this spider is that it does not belong here,” says biologist Jinze Noordijk of the knowledge center. “It travels with plants, trees and shrubs.” The Australian house spider comes, as the name suggests, from Australia. In New Zealand, South Africa and North America the spider has been established for years, reports the EIS knowledge center. In Europe the creature was first spotted in 2010. “In England the eight-legged creature is already common, but it is nice that we can now spot it in the garden in the Netherlands,” says the biologist.