Spiders, a group of predominantly insectivorous predators, occasionally use plant food to
supplement their insect prey. In the current review, we tracked down 95 reported incidents of …

Spiders are the preeminent silk craftsmen among arthropods and are best known for
producing aerial orb webs that snare flying insects. Orb web spiders are ubiquitous …

Agroecosystems contain complex networks of interacting organisms and these interaction
webs are structured by the relative timing of key biological and ecological events. Recent …

Sustainable agriculture must provide for growing human demands for crops while
minimizing impacts on ecosystems. This is a daunting challenge as agroecosystems have …

Habitat management enhances heterogeneity in agroecosystems and also has the potential
to increase recruitment of spiders, which can improve the biological control services afforded …

Can specialist natural enemies persist in ecosystems when competing with omnivorous
natural enemies for their shared prey? The consequences of omnivory have been studied …

Photographs of the webs of approximately 113 species in 52 genera show that the web
architecture of linyphioid spiders (Linyphiidae and Pimoidae) present many variations on a …

Genetically modified crops expressing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
have dramatically increased in acreage since their introduction in the mid-1990's. Although …

Orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae) are commonly regarded as generalist insect predators but
resources provided by plants such as pollen may be an important dietary supplementation …

Interactions of non-crop plants with natural enemies are continuous in space and time in the
tropics. The advantages of using non-crop plants for habitat manipulation are that they are …