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: January 27, 2020

In this week’s Arachnews:

  • a surprising discovery about dragline silk
  • how to extract and observe face mites (you don’t need much more than a microscope!)
  • the evolution of aquatic spiders
  • circadian rhythms in spiders and mites
  • as always, new species and geographic records
    …and more!

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Arachnews: January 20, 2020

This week’s Arachnews is a shorter one, as I’m catching up on a backlog of papers to sort. In this edition: charismatic Habronattus jumping spiders, the return of Silkhenge, fallout of the Australian bushfires, the latest volley in the are-horseshoe-crabs-arachnids debate, and more!

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