Last year James Crofts-Bennett talked spiders in the Dunningham Suite (4th floor) of the City Library. This Festival James introduces you to the soil underworld - from tunnelling spiders to beetle chemical warfare, from microscopic mites to predatory worms.

Soil constitutes one of the most structurally complex and poorly understood habitats found on mother earth. A world largely devoid of light are largely microscopic in nature, it is largely alien to us despite its close proximity.

From tunnelling spiders to the extensive world of beetle chemical warfare, microscopic mites that tend our forests and the predatory worms that predate worms. From dry, hard clay soils to the dank leaf litter of our forests, sandy beach lines and frozen alpine slope soils. The range and diversity of soil habitats and their communities is truly staggering and greatly under appreciated.

Suitable for children 5+

Cost: Free

Hosted by Dunedin City Library