There are plenty of reasons to love and not hate spiders, but let’s start with just eight.
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If we could mimic spider silk, it could revolutionise the fibres we use on a daily basis.
The closest relative of Kangaroo Island’s trapdoor spider lives in South Africa - and the arachnid could have arrived in Australia by oceanic migration.
If a huge huntsman spider is sucked into a vacuum cleaner, can it crawl out later? Lucy, age eight, really, really needs to know.
Spider silk is strong stuff and could be used to manufacture ultra tough ropes and cables, and better sutures in medicine. If only we could find a way to make the stuff.
Australia’s snakes, spiders and other venomous critters tend to strike fear in many people. But is Australia’s reputation as a nation of deadly creatures deserved?
New research into how wasps divide up their jobs shows how economics can be key to understanding animal behaviour.
I’m an edible invertebrate … get me away from there.
The perils of bug parenting.
A new project hopes to drill through the Earth’s crust for the first time. But what beasties lurk deep beneath our feet?
Huntsman spiders deserve a place alongside koalas and kangaroos as iconic Australian wildlife.
Drugs, new materials and even more creative uses: biodiversity is full of potential.
Be thankful you aren’t a male redback spider.
Our homes harbour hundreds of species of insects and their relatives.
There’s a simple reason why Australia isn’t the most lethal nation in the world.
Only two Australian spiders can kill you, but the rest are a pretty fascinating bunch.
Biologists, along with most of the internet, have been puzzled as to why peacock spiders have such flamboyant courtship displays. So we decided to find out.
There are more than 45,000 species of spider, but only a handful are potentially dangerous to humans.
Scientists in Japan have discovered a new species of wasp that induces a zombie-like state in spiders in order to manipulate them into protecting the wasp’s own offspring.
A new study reveals one of the animal world’s more bizarre and gruesome parasitic relationships.
Principales colaboradores
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Vice chancellors Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Research Scientist, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, McGill University
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Research officer, The University of Queensland
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Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics, University of Nottingham
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Research Fellow, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University
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Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University
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PhD student, University of Oxford
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Reader in Bioengineering, University of Cambridge
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Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Otago
