A checklist of spiders from Kashmir, India, is provided which indicates the occurrence 185 species under 100 genera and 25 families. The based primarily on published records Kashmir 1885 to 2023 (up January). These faunistic reveal that most diverse spider families in this region are Salticidae, Linyphiidae, Araneidae, Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae, Lycosidae Theridiidae while about 11 (Cheiracanthii...

The arboreal lycosid species, Hogna trunca Yin, Bao & Zhang 1996, is newly recorded from Japan. was originally described Zhejiang Province (China) and has been known only China. author confirmed its presence in Nara Prefecture the northern part of Okinawa Island Japan, reporting it as a new record for country. genus also to In both areas, species found forests along streams observed waiting on ...

Spiders are recorded as indigenous natural enemies of tea mosquito bug (Helopeltis spp.), which is one of the major economically important pests of cashew. Consecutive survey for three years revealed occurrence of 117 species of spiders belonging to 18 families viz., Araneidae, Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Hersilidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Miturgidae, Nephilidae, Oxyopidae, Pholcidae...

Drosophila melanogaster larvae are classified as herbivores and known to feed on non-carnivorous diet under normal conditions. However, when nutritionally challenged these larvae exhibit cannibalistic behaviour by consuming a diet composed of larger conspecifics. Herein, we report that cannibalism in Drosophila larvae is confined not only to scavenging on conspecifics that are larger in size, b...

This fourteen year long study in the Florida scrub on the Lake Wales Ridge demonstrated that visually searching for open burrows of Geolycosa spiders was an effective method for sampling populations in the winter dry season, except one year when abnormally high precipitation during an El Niño event caused many spiders to close their burrows. Not only could the two endemic Geolycosa species be i...