Dr. Catherine Scott (she/they)さんのイラストまとめ

Giving another seminar today, this time for the Entomology department at U Manitoba!

Covering three stories about spiders on (and off) the web🕷️🕸️

https://t.co/l4SPk0UglD

Here's a summary of our paper on the gobal spread of (mis)information about spiders!

This was a collaboration with a worldwide web of arachnologist colleagues, including @stefanomammola1, @arachnonaut, @jago_MO, & (contd)

https://t.co/3KvcqnDDSw

After ~10 years in the black widow game I am finally moving on to a new study species (but a relative in the same family): the candy-striped spider Enoplognatha ovata, seen here on yarrow, one of its favourite flowers.

Thanks to @chase_prairie for the beautiful painting!

Today's #DailySpider is the woodlouse hunter, Dysdera crocata (family Dysderidae).

It does pretty much what it says on the label, using its impressive fangs to prey on well-armoured isopods.

Tonight I will give a talk to the Halton Naturalists @hnpnc about the secret lives of spiders! If you're in the area please check it out! https://t.co/zaGcMpA5IP

Here's the excellent cartoon explaining venemous vs. poisonous by @RosemaryMosco

Sometimes I have too much fun making figures in powerpoint.
NA #blackwidow #spider (approx) distribution & colour

Aspiring triangle-web spider (Hyptiotes sp.) [photo @Ibycter]

...though all are brown, for some reason. We've got an agelenid, sicariid, amaurobiid, ctenid, and a lycosid