See page 4 for more info! h tp: /kaywa.me/8aVDQ my Kaywa Qr-Code w.valuecarswarehouse.co.nz h tp: /kaywa.me/8aVDQ Ce l 021 855 884 My Kaywa QR-Code w.valuecarswarehouse.co.nz <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 28 NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz BACKYARD CRITTERS A COTTAGE built in the late- 1800s by the inventor of Sure to Rise baking powder has sold for $520,000. The quaint property on Edmonds St, Woolston, which is understood to have been built for one Thomas Edmonds of Thomas Edmonds’ workers, has been purchased by a North Island art teacher who was drawn to its old-world cottage garden. OneRoof property records show the two-bedroom, one-bathroom home last sold for $140,000 in 2009. It has a 2019 RV of $275,000. Interior designers lived in the home for more than a decade and during that time they carefully redecorated while being mindful of its cottage character. Ray White listing agent Rebecca Toone said the new owner will relocate with her daughter to start a new teaching job in Christchurch. “She just loved the gardens.” Toone said the property was definitely unique, especially with its rich history. “It is a quintessential quaint cottage.” After immigrating to New QUAINT: A school teacher purchased the two-bedroom home, which was built by Thomas Edmonds for one of his workers. Sure to Rise inventor’s cottage sells for $520K Zealand, Thomas Edmonds set up a grocery store on what is now the corner of Edmonds and Randolph Sts. He moved the business to Ferry Rd – where part of the Edmonds Gardens remain – to increase production when his Sure to Rise baking powder became a success. Edmonds contributed significantly to the city’s architectural history, including the Theosophical Society building on Cambridge Tce and the Theosophical Society – both of which were damaged beyond repair in the earthquakes. Edmonds also built three cottages, but only this one remains. Mike Bowie is an ecologist who specialises in entomology (insects and other invertebrates). Each week he introduces a new species found in his backyard at Lincoln. His column aims to raise public awareness of biodiversity, the variety of living things around us. Check out the full list of invertebrates found at www.inaturalist.org/projects/ backyard-biodiversity-bugs-in-my-lincoln-section Prey crushing spider IN JANUARY 2016, a small Australian spider was first found in Hoon Hay, Christchurch. This spider has subsequently spread throughout the city and at least as far as Little River, Tai Tapu and Lincoln. Since hearing it had been observed in Lincoln last year, I have been keeping an eye out for it and while painting some trellis last weekend, a specimen literally dropped into the palm of my hand. The species in question is the little humped-back spider, Philoponella congregabilis. The spider is native to the southeast coast of Australia, and as its species name suggests, it is a community dweller, with many of them cohabitating in a messy web. The spiders range from smaller males at 3.5mm to the 6mm females and have an obvious humped abdomen and vary from cream to brown or orange in colour. Within their webs, females PHOTO: NADINE DUPÉRRÉ construct a flat, elongated egg sac about 9mm long containing about 20 small spherical eggs. They have been found around buildings or in low growing vegetation with webs more orientated horizontally than vertically to catch their invertebrate prey. The spider does not use venom, but instead crushes its prey to death by tightly entombing them in silk. They then regurgitate digestive juices on their prey and suck up the resulting ‘soup’. Keep an eye out for this delightful, yet harmless little spider, coming to a place near you! 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