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People Aren't Born Afraid of Spiders and Snakes: Fear Is Quickly Learned During Infancy
January 24, 2011 — There's a reason why Hollywood makes movies like Arachnophobia and Snakes on a Plane: Most people are afraid of spiders and snakes. A new article reviews research with infants and toddlers and finds ... > full story -
Spiders Adjust Courtship Signals for Maximum Effect
January 24, 2011 — Male wolf spiders produce multiple courtship signals -- vibrations and visual cues -- to attract females. New research shows that when courting, these males can modify their mating signals depending ... > full story -
More Than 100 New Species Described by California Academy of Sciences in 2010
December 16, 2010 — In an effort to address the critical need for data about the diversity of life on Earth, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences have spent the past year exploring some of the planet's ... > full story -
Biologist Tracks Spiders' Eyes to Learn How Tiny Brains Process Information
December 2, 2010 — Over the next year, spiders watching videos of their prey are going to help biologists understand how animals choose which visual elements to attend to in their environments. She believes we are on ... > full story -
Getting Rid of Cattle Fever Ticks
November 2, 2010 — Scientists at the US Department of Agriculture have developed two strategies to ward off cattle fever ticks that are crossing the border from Mexico into the United ... > full story -
Dracula Orchids and Goblin Spiders
October 29, 2010 — Observation of fruit flies pollinating Dracula orchids and discovery of over two dozen new goblin spiders: two recent publications from invertebrate zoologists provide a timely bit of natural ... > full story -
Invasive Honeysuckle Increase Risk of Tick-Borne Disease in Suburbs
October 11, 2010 — We often read about dreadful new zoonoses -- animal diseases that are now infecting people -- that have jumped species in distant parts of the world such as Asia or Africa and are now headed our way. ... > full story -
Need to Undertake Epidemiological Monitoring Programs for Ticks Confirmed
September 30, 2010 — Researchers have undertaken a study of ticks, tick-borne diseases and the reservoirs of tick-borne pathogens, which has confirmed the importance of continuous surveillance programs to monitor these ... > full story -
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Scientists Genetically Engineer Silkworms to Produce Artificial Spider Silk
September 29, 2010 — Researchers have succeeded in producing transgenic silkworms capable of spinning artificial spider ... > full story -
Why Are Male Spiders Small While Females Are Giant?
August 2, 2010 — 'Bridging', an unusual mode of getting around frequently used by vegetation-inhabiting spiders to cross large gaps, may partly explain the tendency for male spiders to be much smaller than females. ... > full story
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