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26th European Congress of Arachnology

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AN EXPERIMENTAL MANIPULATION OF VEGETATION STRUCTURE: CONSEQUENCES FOR DESERT SPIDERS

scientific article

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scientific article published on 28 March 2022

Ant Abundance along a Productivity Gradient: Addressing Two Conflicting Hypotheses

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Ant foraging strategies vary along a natural resource gradient

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Armoured spiderman: morphological and behavioural adaptations of a specialised araneophagous predator (Araneae: Palpimanidae).

scientific article published on 21 May 2011

Bad neighbors: hunger and dominance drive spacing and position in an orb-weaving spider colony

scientific article

Cave survey yields a new spider family record for Israel

scholarly article by Efrat Gavish-Regev et al published 1 April 2016 in Arachnologische Mitteilungen

Conflict or cooperation in the courtship display of the white widow spider, Latrodectus pallidus

scientific article published in 2009

Cooperative foraging expands dietary niche but does not offset intra-group competition for resources in social spiders

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Copulation with immature females increases male fitness in cannibalistic widow spiders.

scientific article

Coy Males and Seductive Females in the Sexually Cannibalistic Colonial Spider, Cyrtophora citricola

scientific article

Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Cursorial spiders retard initial aphid population growth at low densities in winter wheat

scientific article

DISPERSAL OF STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA (ARANEAE, ERESIDAE): THEY DO BALLOON AFTER ALL!

scholarly article by Jutta M. Schneider et al published April 2001 in Journal of Arachnology

Differential parasitism of native and invasive widow spider egg sacs

scientific article published in 2022

Diolenius minotaurussp. nov., a remarkable horned jumping spider from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae)

scientific article published in 1986

Dispersal and life history of brown widow spiders in dated invasive populations on two continents

scientific article published in 2022

Dramatic histological changes preceding suicidal maternal care in the subsocial spiderStegodyphus lineatus(Araneae: Eresidae)

scientific article published in 2015

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND PREY AVAILABILITY ON FORAGING IN A SOCIAL SPIDER, STEGODYPHUS MIMOSARUM (ARANEAE, ERESIDAE)

scholarly article by T. E. Crouch & Y. Lubin published September 2000 in Journal of Arachnology

EVIDENCE FOR KIN-STRUCTURED GROUP FOUNDING AND LIMITED JUVENILE DISPERSAL IN THE SUB-SOCIAL SPIDER STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS (ARANEAE, ERESIDAE)

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Effectiveness of single-thread webs as insect traps: sticky trap models

article by Y D Lubin & S Dorugl published 1982 in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society

Effects of extreme climatic events on small-scale spatial patterns: a 20-year study of the distribution of a desert spider

scientific article

Effects of non-nativeEucalyptusplantations on epigeal spider communities in the northern Negev desert, Israel

scholarly article by John D. Herrmann et al published April 2015 in Journal of Arachnology

Eggshell spheres protect brown widow spider ( Latrodectus geometricus) eggs from bacterial infection

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Evidence for loss of nepotism in the evolution of permanent sociality

scientific article

Evolutionary drivers of group foraging: A new framework for investigating variance in food intake and reproduction

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

FOOD CONSUMPTION RATES AND COMPETITION IN A COMMUNALLY FEEDING SOCIAL SPIDER, STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA (ERESIDAE)

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FOREWORD BY THE GUEST CO-EDITOR

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Fitness consequences of outcrossing in a social spider with an inbreeding mating system

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Five-Year Monitoring of a Desert Burrow-Dwelling Spider Following an Environmental Disaster Indicates Long-Term Impacts

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Foraging at the thermal limit: burrowing spiders (Seothyra, Eresidae) in the Namib desert dunes

scientific article published on October 1990

Foraging decisions and behavioural flexibility in trap-building predators: a review

scientific article

Frequency and consequences of damage to male copulatory organs in a widow spider

scientific article published in 2008

Functional morphology of immature mating in a widow spider

scientific article published on 26 April 2021

Good reasons to leave home: proximate dispersal cues in a social spider

scientific article

Ground spider communities in experimentally disturbed Mediterranean woodland habitats

scientific article published in 2011

Group living in spiders: cooperative breeding and coloniality

HABITATS AND INTERSPECIFIC ASSOCIATIONS OF ZODARIID SPIDERS IN THE NEGEV (ARANEAE: ZODARIIDAE)

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Habitat Selection and the Life History of a Desert Spider, Stegodyphus lineatus (Eresidae)

scientific article (publication date: April 1993)

How oniscophagous spiders overcome woodlouse armour

scientific article published in 2008

Inbreeding, but not seed availability, affects dispersal and reproductive success in a seed-inhabiting social beetle

scientific article published on 25 November 2017

Indirect genetic benefits of polyandry in a spider with direct costs of mating

scientific article published in 2006

Infanticidal male eresid spiders

scientific article published in Nature

Integrating animal behavior and conservation biology: a conceptual framework

scientific article published in 2011

Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions

scientific article published in 2022

Is Male Cohabitation Costly for Females of the Spider Stegodyphus lineatus (Eresidae)?

It’s All about the Zone: Spider Assemblages in Different Ecological Zones of Levantine Caves

scientific article published in 2021

Kin recognition and cannibalism in a subsocial spider

LACK OF TASK DIFFERENTIATION DURING PREY CAPTURE IN THE GROUP LIVING SPIDER STEGODYPHUS MIMOSARUM (ARANEAE, ERESIDAE)

scholarly article by Cheron Ainsworth et al published 2002 in Journal of Arachnology

Maternal investment in a spider with suicidal maternal care,Stegodyphus lineatus(Araneae, Eresidae)

scientific article published in 2005

Maternal nutrition affects offspring performance via maternal care in a subsocial spider

scientific article (publication date: 29 December 2010)

NATURAL HISTORY AND KARYOTYPE OF SOME ANT-EATING ZODARIID SPIDERS (ARANEAE, ZODARIIDAE) FROM ISRAEL

scholarly article by Stano Pekar et al published April 2005 in Journal of Arachnology

Nest usurpation: a specialised hunting strategy used to overcome dangerous spider prey

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

Ontogenetic and Seasonal Changes in Webs and Websites of a Desert Widow Spider

scientific article published in 1991

Orb Plus Cone-Webs in Uloboridae (Araneae), With a Description of a New Genus and Four New Species

scientific article published in 1982

Population genetic evidence for sex-specific dispersal in an inbred social spider

scientific article

Prey and predatory behavior of two zodariid species (Araneae, Zodariidae)

scientific article published in 2009

RELATIVE SEASONAL ABUNDANCE OF FIVE SPIDER SPECIES IN THE NEGEV DESERT: INTRAGUILD INTERACTIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

scientific article

Seed Predation on Oil-Polluted and Unpolluted Vachellia (Acacia) Trees in a Hyper-Arid Desert Ecosystem

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Sexual Cannibalism in the Brown Widow Spider (Latrodectus geometricus)

Sexual conflict in the wild: elevated mating rate reduces female lifetime reproductive success

scientific article (publication date: May 2005)

Sexual conflict over mating in a spider: increased fecundity does not compensate for the costs of polyandry

scientific article

Sexual selection for increased male body size and protandry in a spider

Social phenomena in spiders

scientific article published in 1971

Spatial patterns of social spider colonies in Namibia reflect habitat features and dispersal modes

Spiders in wheat fields and semi-desert in the Negev (Israel)

scholarly article by Therese Pluess et al published August 2008 in Journal of Arachnology

State-dependent decisions in nest site selection by a web-building spider

THE MALE MATING SYSTEM IN A DESERT WIDOW SPIDER

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THE TRANSITION TO SOCIAL INBRED MATING SYSTEMS IN SPIDERS: ROLE OF INBREEDING TOLERANCE IN A SUBSOCIAL PREDECESSOR

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

Tachinobia repanda (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) From Egg Sacs of a Colonial Spider, Cyrtophora moluccensis (Araneae: Araneidae) in Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Temporal and Spatial Segregation of Web-Building in a Community of Orb-Weaving Spiders

scientific article published in 1992

The Evolution of Sociality in Spiders

The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2007)

The egg sac of Benoitia lepida (Araneae: Agelenidae): structure, placement and the function of its layers

article by Søren Toft & Yael Lubin published April 2018 in Journal of Arachnology

The functions of societies and the evolution of group living: spider societies as a test case

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Trial by fire: social spider colony demographics in periodically burned grassland

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2003

Trunk Refugia: A Simple, Inexpensive Method for Sampling Tree Trunk Arthropods

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Use of alternative habitats by spiders in a desert agroecosystem

scientific article published in 2017

Vibratory courtship in a web-building spider: signalling quality or stimulating the female?

Webs of Miagrammopes (Araneae: Uloboridae) in the Neotropics

scholarly article by Y. D. Lubin et al published 1978 in Psyche

What is the function of ‘pre-dispersal’ behavior in juvenile social spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola: Eresidae)?

scientific article published in 2013