Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Number 16

1974 there hatched
A trapdoor spider, humans chose
To study, and thus was dispatched,
The name Number 16 arose.
She, in an Australian reserve,
Built her burrow and there she stayed,
And so, quite easy to observe,
All the spider stuff she displayed -
How she did trap insects nearby,
And drag their bodies back into
Her burrow for her food supply,
Her life spent in her burrow - true!

In 2018 she did die,
Oldest know spider did apply.