The Beautiful Parachute Spider (Poecilotheria metallica) is native to Sri Lanka and in truth is not a builder of webs - not all spiders are. Parachute spiders can ‘parachute’ from high perches on a single silken string they produce. They are endangered due to habitat loss, primarily from logging and clearing for agriculture. The spiders are also being loved to extinction: captured for a highly lucrative pet trade because they are prized for their beauty and impossible to breed in captivity, no protections (pet trade or overall?) have been afforded them to date. Artist Kerin Rose has created a version of Indra's Net for her spider. This is a central metaphor in Buddhist philosophy that is used to illustrate the interconnectedness of all phenomena in the universe. Indra’s Net is described as a golden, infinite net that holds a jewel at each intersection. Each jewel represents a soul and reflects all others, creating a holographic representation of both the visible and invisible aspects of the universe. A philosophical and physical representation for the manner in which each thing that exists is dependent upon both its existence and its identity via every other thing that exists, Indra’s Net helps illustrate that when we lose one Beautiful Parachute Spider, we lose a part of ourselves.