Spider
Solidarity Forever
Social spiders create the communes of the arachnid world
By banding together in large colonies,
social spider species defy traditional arachnid temperament.
References:
Avilés, L., and P. Tufiño. 1998. Colony size and individual fitness
in the social spider Anelosimus eximius. American Naturalist
152(September):403.
Evans, T.A. 1999. Kin recognition in a social spider. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London 266(Feb. 7):287.
Further Readings:
Lewin, R. 1996. Evolution's new heretics. Natural History
105(May):12.
Sources:
Leticia Avilés
University of Arizona
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tucson, AZ 85721
Theodore A. Evans
University of Melbourne
Department of Zoology
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia
Deborah R. Smith
University of Kansas
Department of Entomology
Haworth Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
George W. Uetz
University of Cincinnati
Biology Department
821-A Rieveschl Hall
Cincinnati, OH 45221
From Science
News, Vol. 155, No. 19, May 8, 1999, p. 300.
Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
