Download or read book Cobweb Weavers written by Jake Miller and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the anatomy, web-making, food, reproduction, enemies, and usefulness to humans of cobweb weavers, a family of spiders that includes the harmless house spider and the poisonous black widow and Australian redback spiders.
Download or read book Common Spiders of North America written by Richard A. Bradley and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This first comprehensive guide to all 68 spider families in North America beautifully illustrates 469 of the most commonly encountered species. Group keys enable identification by web type and other observable details, and species descriptions include identification tips, typical habitat, geographic distribution, and behavioral notes. A concise illustrated introduction to spider biology and anatomy explains spider relationships. This book is a critical resource for curious naturalists who want to understand this ubiquitous and ecologically critical component of our biosphere.
Download or read book Illinois Insects and Spiders written by Peggy Macnamara and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrying art and entomology, this is a unique introduction to local biodiversity found in Illinois. More than a traditional field guide, it combines lush artwork with the science of natural history.
Download or read book Spider Silk written by Leslie Brunetta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.
Download or read book Cornell Nature Study Leaflets written by New York State College of Agriculture and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets is a lengthy series of nature study leaflets for both teachers and students. They were used by the College of Agriculture and Cornell University in New York during the beginning of the 20th century.
Download or read book Cornell Nature study Leaflets written by Cornell University. College of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Spider Webs written by William Eberhard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
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Download or read book Annual Report written by New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture written by New York. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Ithaca N Y written by Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station written by Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
