Sentences with word «arachnologist»

«Taxonomy also serves to protect animal species,» explains Dr. Peter Jäger, arachnologist at Senckenberg and himself the discoverer of 46 new spider species in 2011 and 2012.

Hamilton named A. moellendorfii to commemorate mentor, educator and fellow arachnologist Dave Moellendorf, who introduced Hamilton to tarantula distribution in Texas and supported his early interest in the spider group.

In the 1940s, British arachnologist W. S. Bristowe famously estimated 2.2 billion spiders in the United Kingdom, eating at minimum 100 insects per year, for an annual consumption of at least 220 billion insects.

In his Biology of Spiders (1982 edition), German arachnologist Ranier Foelix barely mentions tarantulas.

«They don't try to bite very much,» says arachnologist Sam Marshall.

Marshall is one of only a dozen arachnologists worldwide specializing in them — and the only scientist who runs a lab full of tarantulas gathered from around the globe.

Within minutes, the 45 - year - old arachnologist is lying blissfully on his belly, poking a twig down a foot - long tunnel.

Until recently, arachnologists trying to unravel how spiders» vast range of adaptations arose built family trees based on morphology and behavior.

They also enlisted molecular methods beginning in the early 1990s, when arachnologists identified a half - dozen short, conserved spider DNA sequences that still had enough variation between species to derive relationships.

To add to its mystery P. otwayensis weaves highly stereotyped ladder - shaped webs, where they stand facing down after sunset, waiting for preys which will be caught by using the ladder as a trap — a behavior which was already described in detail by now retired arachnologist Mike Gray (Australian Museum) for the only known other species of this genus, P. carraensis.

WELL PRESERVED Eriauchenius milajaneae is a new species of pelican spider discovered by arachnologist Hannah Wood, who named it after her daughter «in the hope that one day she will go to Andohahela [National Park in Madagascar] to find this spider,» Wood writes in a new paper describing 18 new species.

Arachnologists often look to spiders» genitals: Males and females from the same species typically evolved specially shaped organs to mate.

Saraceno further expanded on this work, in collaboration with world leading arachnologists and researchers from MIT, among others, by being the first to scan, analyse, and reconstruct a three - dimensional spider web subsequently presented at Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden in the following year.

At least, that's what arachnologist Richard Vetter says.

«What my paper is doing is giving information to the entomologists and arachnologists so they can properly identify the spiders,» he said.

«Fortunately, we have our collection that we can fall back on,» says Dr Peter Jäger, arachnologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt.

He had already married a fellow arachnologist, Maggie Hodge, who clearly did not mind spiders.

«It's a pretty huge unfilled niche that he's in,» says Jonathan Coddington, an arachnologist at the Smithsonian Institution.

Hamilton, an arachnologist and graduate student at Auburn University's Department of Biological Sciences, told Live Science that «not much behavioral or ecological work has been done to understand these species and the settings they live in,» he said.

«It's a nice idea,» says Rainer Foelix, an arachnologist at the Naturama natural history museum in Aarau, Switzerland.

All of these explanations «take a very simplistic view,» says Stano Pekár, an arachnologist at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.

J. L. Cloudesley - Thompson from University College London, is also a very definite pro, with a general interest in deserts — and a particular weakness for Solifugae: «Any arachnologist who has not seen Arabian, Egyptian or Sudanese camel - spiders has missed out!»

Wood, an arachnologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., analyzed the genes and anatomy of live and museum pelican spider specimens to find these new species.

According to Rick Vetter, an arachnologist at the University of California at Riverside, phlebitis sometimes causes necrotic lesions.

The arachnologist Dr Peter Jäger of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt has discovered a new genus from the family of huntsman spiders.

There is a completely charming story in The Atlantic written by Ed Yong that recounts a «lovely Twitter geek - out between astronomers and arachnologists.»