Umm...we don't let sparkies touch transistors. They're much too complicated, and you can't get them working by nailing a bit of manky twin core and earth to them.
Oh, that's not fair, I mean, you can't go wrong with the "it's just a couple of diodes" model. Can you? Don't they teach diodes at Sparky's school?
I think you’ll find that’s now a Banded Australian Huntsperson. Diversity and equality spread to the arachnid world ages ago!