Similarities in Evasive Behavior of Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae), American Toads (Anura: Bufonidae) and Ground Beetles (Coleopterea: Carabidae) [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) While collecting newly metalnorphosed American toads, Bufo anlericanus Holbrook, we have observed that they exhibited evasive behavior similar to that of adults of the wolf spiders, Pardosa saxatilis (Hentz), Pirata insularis Emerton, Pirata ...
Brown, Lauren E., Thrall, James H.
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Beneficial Effects of Ants and Spiders on the Reproductive Value of Eriotheca gracilipes (Malvaceae) in a Tropical Savanna. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Predators affect plant fitness when they forage on them and reduce the action of herbivores. Our study evaluates the complementary effects of spiders and ants that visit the extrafloral nectaries of Eriotheca gracilipes (Malvaceae) on the production of ...
Vanessa Stefani +3 more
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Molecular Spiders in One Dimension [PDF]
, 2007 Molecular spiders are synthetic bio-molecular systems which have "legs" made of short single-stranded segments of DNA. Spiders move on a surface covered with single-stranded DNA segments complementary to legs.
Alberts B +21 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Cobweb weaving spiders and their relatives spin multiple task-specific fiber types. The unique material properties of each silk type result from differences in amino acid sequence and structure of their component proteins, primarily spidroins (spider ...
Jeremy Miller +4 more
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Effects of Wolf Spiders’ Captive Environment on Their Locomotor and Exploratory Behaviours
Insects, 2022 Here I detail the effects of the abiotic/captive environment of an adult wandering spider, Pardosa saltans (Lycosidae) on its behaviour. These studies focused on spiders collected as adults in their natural environment and spiders developed in the ...
Marie Trabalon
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Terricolous Spiders (Araneae) of Insecticide-Treated Spruce-Fir Forests in West-Central Maine [PDF]
, 2017 Spiders of 12 families, 42 genera, and at least 62 species were captured in linear-pitfall traps placed in insecticide-treated (Sevin-4-Oil®, Dipel 4L ®, Thuricide 16B®) and untreated spruce-fIr forests of west-central Maine.
Hilburn, Daniel J, Jennings, Daniel T
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Divergence in gut bacterial community between females and males in the wolf spider Pardosa astrigera
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Sex is one of the important factors affecting gut microbiota. As key predators in agroforestry ecosystem, many spider species show dramatically different activity habits and nutritional requirements between females and males. However, how sex affects gut
Ying Gao +4 more
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Novel decorating behaviour of silk retreats in a challenging habitat [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Many ecological interactions of spiders with their potential prey and predators are affected by the visibility of their bodies and silk, especially in habitats with lower structural complexity that expose spiders. For instance, the surface of tree trunks
Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Plant–animal interactions are diverse and widespread shaping ecology, evolution, and biodiversity of most ecological communities. Carnivorous plants are unusual in that they can be simultaneously engaged with animals in multiple mutualistic and ...
James J. Krupa +4 more
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A Study of Spiders (Araneae) on Maple Trees (Acer Spp.) [PDF]
, 2017 We began this study to determine whether spider species occur randomly on maple species or whether they are selective in picking either their host species or their position on that host.
Dillery, Dean G., Uetz, George W.
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