Tag: arachnews

Arachnews: April 6, 2020

In this week’s roundup of everything arachnid:

  • cool photos of as-yet-undescribed species
  • which conferences are postponed, which are still going ahead
  • the Great British Cellar Spider Survey
  • mite-eating thrips, nematode-eating mites, scorpion-eating scorpions
    …and more!

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Arachnews: March 23, 2020

In this week’s round-up of everything new with spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks:

  • scientific conferences postponed due to COVID-19
  • 3D jumping spider models
  • 20 years’ worth of new scorpion species
  • spiders with noses and harvestpeople with horns
  • …and more!

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Arachnews: March 16, 2020

In this week’s roundup of arachnid art, news, and science:

  • amazing nature photos (including two possibly undescribed species!)
  • the latest developments
  • breaking down that mouse vs. scorpion fight from Netflix’s Earth at Night
  • a new genus of (adorable) African jumping spiders
  • the “are horseshoe crabs arachnids?” debate returns

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Arachnews: March 9, 2020

New issues of Systematic and Applied Acarology, Experimental and Applied Acarology, and Acarologia means lots and lots of mite papers this week. There’s also nematodes, hair- and/or eyebrow-raising medical case studies, pretty spider photos, bacterial endosymbionts, and more.

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Arachnews: March 2, 2020

In this week’s roundup of all things arachnid (mostly spiders this week, though):

  • cool nature photos and videos; egg sacs seem to be a theme
  • debunking the latest viral scare about cork-lid trapdoor spiders
  • research about not-so-parasitic mites, medical uses of venom, and tarantula embryonic development
  • extremely weird new species
    …and more!

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Arachnews: February 24, 2020

The latest Arachnews is up! In this week’s roundup of arachnid photos, art, news, and science:

  • research jobs! upcoming conferences and events!
  • new Zefrank video—and it’s on peacock spiders
  • what to do about mites on your tarantula
  • a wide range of ecology papers (arachnid vs. arachnid, arachnid vs. nature, arachnid vs. self)
  • newly described species, including freaky fossil spiders
    …and more!

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Arachnews: February 17, 2020

The latest edition of Arachnews is short, sweet, and only a little gruesome. In this week’s roundup of arachnid art, news, and science:

  • spider valentines
  • a wonderful intro to social spiders
  • prey-attracting patterns
  • Asian net-casting spiders reclassified

…and (just a little) more!

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Arachnews: February 10, 2020

In this week’s Arachnews:

  • hits the mainstream media, plus more insight from biologists
  • 3D horseshoe crab fossils
  • lots of new research on medical applications of scorpion and spider venom
  • some absolutely gorgeous tarantulas
  • a truly bonkers paper on spider husbandry
    …and more!

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Arachnews: February 3, 2020

In this week’s Arachnews:

  • a roundup of news
  • Sydney funnel-web season in Australia
  • jumping spiders in eyeliner
  • the secret to capturing moths with spider silk
  • new species named after mathematician Cedric Villani; Gollum; Mithra; and the Gullah and Amazigh people
    …and more!

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