Sentences with phrase «arachnologist at»

«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.

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

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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.

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.

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.