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CARDBOARD SHELTERS AS A TOOL FOR SUPPORTING BENEFICIAL INVERTEBATE PREDATORS IN APPLE ORCHARDS

open access: yesVědecké Práce Ovocnářské
This study focuses on the use of cardboard shelters in the apple orchard to support key predators, primarily spiders and earwigs. The use of shelters was assessed over two years, with seasonal changes in their occupancy by spiders (Araneae) and the ...
Jana Niedobová   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of spider news on online information-seeking.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Fear of spiders is a widespread condition often disproportionate to the actual danger spiders pose to humans. Likely rooted in evolutionary history, fear of spiders might also have a cultural component.
André-Philippe Drapeau Picard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A checklist of ground-dwelling spiders in a banana orchard in Hazyview in Mpumalanga province

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science
Banana orchards, like other crops, are attacked by insect pests. Although spiders are among the natural enemies of these pests, we have limited data on the different types of spider species that occur in the banana orchards in South Africa.
Inam Yekwayo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) distribution across the timberline in the Swiss Central Alps (Alp Flix, Grisons) and three morphologically remarkable species [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We collected 6251 adult epigeic spiders from the dwarf-shrub heath to subalpine coniferous forest on Alp Flix (CH, canton Grisons, 1950 m) between May 2005 and May 2006 using pitfall traps.
Muff, Patrick   +4 more
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Spider–Plant Interaction: The Role of Extrafloral Nectaries in Spider Attraction and Their Influence on Plant Herbivory and Reproduction

open access: yesPlants
Spiders, abundant and diverse arthropods which occur in vegetation, have received little attention in studies investigating spider–plant interactions, especially in plants which have extrafloral nectaries (EFNs).
Karoline Pádua de Oliveira Dias   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sibling Species in the Eurydice Group of Lethe (Lepidoptera: Satyridae)

open access: yesPsyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1970
Rino T. Cardé   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New records of spiders from pond littorals in the Czech Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Tmeticus affinis (BLACKWALL, 1855), Tetragnatha shoshone LEVI, 1981, Clubiona juvenis SIMON, 1878, Marpissa Canestrinii NINNI, 1868, and Theridiosoma gemmosum (L. KOCH, 1877) are new records for the Czech Republic.
Holec, Michal, Růžička, Vlastimil
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Spider Diversity Pattern and Community Composition in the South Eastern Nigeria: An Analysis of Habitat Differences

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2019
Spider diversity plays an important role in the balance of nature. Thus, a study on the diversity of spiders was carried out in Awka, Anambra State in the South Eastern Nigeria from January, 2018 to June, 2018. Spiders were collected from three habitats
C.D. Ezeonyejiaku   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

On Pardosa schenkell (Araneae, Lycosidae) and its presence in Germany and Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The wolf spider Pardosa schenkeli Lessert, 1904 was since long regarded as occurring in Germany and Poland but is excluded from the recent checklist of spiders found in these countries.
Kronestedt, Torbjörn
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