CABI has confirmed a new species of fungus after the BBC Springwatch show called on Dr. Harry Evans' expertise when the mysterious specimen was first discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle Espie wetland center ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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A new study of huntsman spiders links evolutionary lineages with life history traits, providing patterns for predicting social behaviors in other less-studied species. Sociality is very rare in spiders—only five out of ...
Evolution
Jun 6, 2022
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Newly published research led by Northumbria University shows that, contrary to what is commonly believed, the venom of snakes and spiders is actually populated with microbes, including bacteria that could cause infection ...
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2022
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A tropical spider species uses a "film" of air to hide underwater from predators for as long as 30 minutes, according to faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2022
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Sometimes there are pretty valid reasons for leaving right after sex.
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2022
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The odds of encountering a dangerous spider are far longer than its legs: Fewer than five of every 1,000 spider species pose any health threat to people, and the few that do rarely live among humans. Still, arachnophobia ...
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2022
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There are now 50,000 known different species of spider crawling the Earth, the World Spider Catalog announced Wednesday—and there might be another 50,000 out there.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2022
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Everyone knows that humans and most other vertebrate species hear using eardrums that turn soundwave pressure into signals for our brains. But what about smaller animals like insects and arthropods? Can they detect sounds? ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2022
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Researchers say a large spider native to East Asia that proliferated in Georgia last year could spread to much of the East Coast.
Ecology
Mar 8, 2022
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Scientists from the Ryan Institute in NUI Galway have published the first record of a Noble False Widow spider feeding on a protected species of Pipistrelle bats in the UK.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2022
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