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Arachnis Pittoiletis at Wiruna

The curator of Spiders, Scott Muesli has made further progress in communicating with the rare and endangered Arachnis Pittoiletis species of spider at their Wiruna homeland.

Regular readers of Alternate Universe will recall the sensation caused when communication with these intelligent survivors of the great Cretaceous extinction was first established. Recently, he has re-negotiated their contract with the Society to include pursuit of Red-Back Spiders and White-Tailed Spiders around Wiruna. They have been warned to avoid the Eat-in-kitchen area, where chemical warfare is being conducted against the resident Tree Funnel-Web Spiders.

In further discussions, they reported a tradition of working arrangements with the Philosoraptures, who had engaged them to perform delicate fabrication of electrical circuits, and their carbon equivalent of silicon chips. Some patterns of their webs were actually circuit diagrams maintained over the millennia by genetic memory.