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Effects of Wolf Spiders’ Captive Environment on Their Locomotor and Exploratory Behaviours

open access: yesInsects, 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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Maintenance of polymorphism in the orb weaving spider species Agalenatea redii (Araneae, Araneidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The maintenance of polymorphism within populations may be the consequence of several elements of species life history such as use of space, activity rhythms, predation, parasitism and reproduction.
François, Olivier   +3 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

open access: yesScientific 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   +7 more
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The influence of camouflage and prey type on predatory decisions of jumping spider [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Decisions made by predators during predatory encounters are often based on multiple factors that may influence the outcome of the encounters. For stalking predators their visibility to the prey and the ability of their prey to escape may be important ...
Bartos Maciej
core   +2 more sources

Common Florida Spiders

open access: yesEDIS
This document provides an overview of common spiders found in Florida, detailing their physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats. It covers various species, including jumping spiders, crab spiders, golden silk spiders, spiny orb-weavers, black ...
J.L. Castner
doaj   +1 more source

SPIDERS: Selection of spectroscopic targets using AGN candidates detected in all-sky X-ray surveys [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
SPIDERS (SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources) is an SDSS-IV survey running in parallel to the eBOSS cosmology project. SPIDERS will obtain optical spectroscopy for large numbers of X-ray-selected AGN and galaxy cluster members detected in ...
Anderson, S. F.   +21 more
core   +4 more sources

Preliminary Survey of the Terrestrial Isopods (Isopoda), Millipedes (Diplopoda), Harvestmen (Opiliones), and Spiders (Araneae) of Toft Point Natural Area, Door County, Wisconsin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Toft Point Natural Area is a National Natural Landmark owned and managed by the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay and located on the Lake Michigan shore of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula.
Draney, Michael L   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Species composition and relative seasonal abundance of spiders from the field and tree layers of the Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve

open access: yesKoedoe: 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additions to the Checklist of the Illinois Spiders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Five families and 140 species of spiders not included in former Illinois checklists are recorded. Two of these families, Antrodiaetidae and Scytodidae, and 40 of the species have been cited in earlier revisionary or other literature.
Beatty, J. A, Nelson, J. M
core   +3 more sources

A checklist of spiders of Nepal (Arachnida; Araneae)

open access: yesHeliyon, 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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