In summer, the paperbark trees beside the creek provide a home for the Australian bowl spider (Cyrtophora exanthematica) — a 12-millimetre (half-inch) beige-coloured spider that makes a bowl-shaped web, with a lid, at the end of tree branches using fresh and dead leaves.
The specific name "parangexanthematica" literally means 'like exanthematica' in Filipino, referring to their close resemblance to double-tailed tent spiders (Cyrtophora exanthematica).