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Tests for attraction to prey and predator avoidance by chemical cues in spiders of the beech forest floor [PDF]

Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2012
Spiders leave draglines, faeces and other secretions behind when traveling through their microhabitat. The presence of these secretions may unintentionally inform other animals, prey as well as predators, about a recent and possible current predation ...
Wetter, Melissa B., Wernisch, Bettina, Toft, Søren   +2 more
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EXPLORATION OF PREDATORY SPIDERS ON COTTON PESTS IN SPRAYED AND UN-SPRAYED COTTON FIELDS OF CCRI-SAKRAND-SINDH-PAKISTAN

Journal of Applied Research in Plant Sciences, 2020
Explorations of predatory spiders were carried out from sprayed and unsprayed cotton crop grown at Central Cotton Research Institute Sakrand, Sindh-Pakistan during the period of May-October 2016 and 2017.
Shah Nawaz Khuhro, Khalid Abdullah, Mohammad Farooque Hassan, Muhammad Ali Talpur, Abdullah Keerio   +4 more
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Species composition and relative seasonal abundance of spiders from the field and tree layers of the Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1989
A survey of spiders was carried out at the Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve near Pretoria. Over a 4-year period 10 270 spiders were collected from grasses, herbs and trees. A total of 82 genera of spiders representing 27 families were recorded.
Anna S. Dippenaar-Schoeman, Alida M. van den Berg, Annette van den Berg   +2 more
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Foraging strategies and geographic factors jointly shape gut microbiota of spiders in the Sichuan and Guizhou regions of China

Communications Biology
Spiders, a keystone predatory group for terrestrial ecosystem balance, have underexplored gut microbiotas. We collected 1090 spiders from 34 families in southwestern China, performing 16S rRNA sequencing to investigate their gut microbiota. Wandering and
Jiao Wang, Shuqiao Wang, Qian Chen, Chuang Zhou, Zhenxin Fan, Yucheng Lin   +5 more
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Attentional, emotional, and behavioral response toward spiders, scorpions, crabs, and snakes provides no evidence for generalized fear between spiders and scorpions

Scientific Reports, 2023
Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex response might have been formed throughout human evolution.
E. Landová, I. Štolhoferová, B. Vobrubová, J. Polák, K. Sedláčková, M. Janovcová, S. Rádlová, D. Frynta   +7 more
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THE USEFULNESS OF SPIDERS [PDF]

The Canadian Entomologist, 1875
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Venturesome Spiders

Science, 1883
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External DNA contamination and efficiency of bleach decontamination for arthropod diet analysis

Environmental DNA, 2023
DNA metabarcoding is increasingly used to analyze the diet of arthropods, including spiders. However, high sensitivity to DNA contamination makes it difficult to apply to organisms obtained from mass‐sampling methods such as pitfall traps. An alternative
Maike Huszarik, Nina Röder, Linda Eberhardt, Susan Kennedy, Henrik Krehenwinkel, Klaus Schwenk, Martin H. Entling   +6 more
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A checklist of spiders of Nepal (Arachnida; Araneae)

Heliyon, 2022
Spiders (order Araneae) have a worldwide distribution. As of June 17, 2022, the World spider catalog, Version 23.0, enlists 50,188 species of spiders from throughout the world. Except for the open sea and air, spiders live in every ecological environment.
Sanskar Subedi, Ritu Joshi, Samir Karki, Shila Gurung   +3 more
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Bird-spiders (Arachnida, Mygalomorphae) as perceived by the inhabitants of the village of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2006
This paper deals with the conceptions, knowledge and attitudes of the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, on mygalomorph spiders locally known as 'caranguejeiras' (bird-spiders).
Neto Eraldo
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