Arachnologia -
the study of Arachnida

{derived from the name of that poor girl, Arachne}

The world of spiders and their relatives,
including Spider of the Month

and

Opiliones Notes

I'm also an ecologist, interested in how living organisms are linked to their environment. The different kinds of spiders provide excellent examples of how finely adapted animals can be to their world.

From time to time, I'll put little snippets of information here about these wonderful creatures.

• Spider communities and vegetation structure

 
• Is it possible to describe terrestrial invertebrate comunities?

• Harvestman eyes and their environment.

One of the ecological coexistence mechanisms for spider species in temperate climes is their seasonality - some of them tend to be active at different times of the year. I can look through data gathered over the past thirty years or so and select species characteristic of different seasons - and so at least, we can look and see what's the Spider of the Month!.

The British Arachnological Society is well worth a look, as well as the international Arachnology web site, an important information source provided by Herman Vanuytven , and the International Society of Arachnology.

Arachne?

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