Archived News for month of March 2024 from the UC Davis Entomology and Nematology website, Bond Lab Research Paper Calls Attention to Diversity of California's Trapdoor Spiders Tule and Cattail: A ...

BHPian Jeroen recently shared this with other enthusiasts: I spent most of last Sunday with our good friends Alex and Bianca. Bianca owns a gorgeous creme Spider Coda Tronca and Alex used to own a 916 ...

About the size of a 20 cent piece… the Kwonkan nemoralis. Credit: Dr Jeremy Wilson Researchers discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in northern Australia with uniquely engineered burrows, ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Australia has a frighteningly high estimate of 10,000 local species of spiders. Its wildlife gives Australia a fearsome reputation, and its arachnids are no exception.

While the employee immediately recognised the creature was a trapdoor spider — experts later revealed that this specific species has never been seen before. “It’s really exciting that the ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique ...

Now they've been described in a research paper by scientists who say they're both types of trapdoor spiders – unusual for the location. "We didn't discover these spiders in the typical dry ...

Joe Bennett is an author and columnist who writes the weekly A Dog's Life column in Saturday's Northern Advocate. What did spiders ever do to us? At what point in the 400 million years that they ...

and a yellow-orange hourglass marking on its abdomen. The bite is neuropathic like the black widow, but it generally does not spread, so it’s painful but not life threatening. These spiders are ...