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A game demonstrating aspects of bumblebee natural history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The Bumblebee Game is an exciting outdoor game, which demonstrates aspects of bumblebee natural history including food chains, food webs and competition for food, predation by crab spiders, parasitism by Conopidae (Diptera) and brood parasitism by ...
Westgarth-Smith, AR
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Habitats and Spider Prey of \u3ci\u3eDipogon Sayi Sayi\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in Washington County, Maine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Spider wasps were reared from three types of trap-nests deployed in strip-clearcut areas of a spruce-fir-mixed hardwood forest of Maine. Collections of Dipogon sayi sayi from Mooseborn National Wildlife Refuge, Washington County, represent the ...
Jennings, Daniel T, Parker, Frank D
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Cyrioctea (Araneae, Zodariidae) in Africa: temperate Gondwanaland relict, recent radiation, or both? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Two new species of the zodariid genus Cyrioctea Simon, 1889 are described: C. sawadee sp. nov. and C. lotzi sp. nov., both only known from males. The genus now contains seven Afrotropical species and this abundance is discussed in the context of its ...
Jocqué, Rudy C.A.M.
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Spiders in Fauna Europaea : dual use of the database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The history and current work of the project Fauna Europaea is outlined. The different sources used for building up the database and the efforts to keep it updated are described.
Helsdingen, Peter J. van
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Checklist of spider fauna of FR Peshawar, FATA, Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yesArthropods, 2012
The spiders are known as poisonous arthropods, but they also act as the predator or biological pests control agent. Their 23 species belonging to 15 genera and 09 families were reported during 2009-2010 from FR Peshawar, FATA, Pakistan.
F. Perveen, A. Jamal
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Einige seltene Spinnenarten aus der Slowakei (Araneae)

open access: yesArachnologische Mitteilungen, 1996
In South-western Slovakia (Ipel Valley), five rare spider species were found with insufficiently known distribution in Slovakia: Runcinia lateralis (C.L.
Jedličková, Jozefína
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A checklist of spiders from Sovenga Hill, an inselberg in the Savanna Biome, Limpopo Province, South Africa (Arachnida: Araneae)

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2005
The South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) was initiated to make an inventory of the arachnid fauna of South Africa. Various projects are underway to prepare inventories of the spider fauna of the different floral biomes and provinces of ...
M.A. Modiba   +2 more
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Faunistic spider collections in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: The collection of Erich Hesse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The ‘Hesse collection’ of spiders (Araneae) and harvestmen (Opiliones) in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is documented. Biographical notes on Erich Hesse – a former arachnid curator at the museum (1921–1940) – are provided.
Dunlop, Jason A.   +2 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Registros de arañas epigeas en Bahía Blanca, en la región templada de Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ecological surveys of diversity and seasonal patterns of spiders in relation with cadavers have rarely been conducted, despite the high potential species diversity and abundance of spiders.
Zanetti, Noelia Inés
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