Texas Spider Encounters * * * * * -- -- * * * * * * Assembled & Edited by Jerry Cates. BUG ME RIGHT NOW! ---- Ph: 512-331-1111 ---- ---- ---- * --0a0s-- B. Processed spider photos and reports for 2007. Click on a photo for details: 1 This and the pages that follow provide basic technical and anecdotal information on spiders encountered in Texas, as well as in the United States at large, and--for spiders of unusual medical importance--throughout the world.

Visitors are invited to contribute personal experiences and photographs, which are posted with added remarks as time permits. I f you send photos via email attachment, please attach the highest resolution images available. Be sure to include information on where the spider encounter took place, and the date of the encounter, if known. I try to reply to emails the moment I read them, as I've learned from experience that they may not get answered at all otherwise. In order to reply to emails about spiders quickly, my replies are often terse and pithy, rather than long and detailed. At minimum I try to identify your spider to species and gender, and tell you if it is considered dangerously harmful. In the editorial comments supplied with the posted photographs found on the following links, I often include technicalities obtained from textbooks, published papers, guides, or books authored by imminent authorities in the fields of zoology, biology, or arachnology.

Whenever practical, but not always, these authorities are identified. Unless specifically stated that a technical observation is my own, you may presume it came from another source. Anyone desiring to know the source of an observation mentioned in these pages is invited to inquire in that regard. Obviously, any analysis of a specimen posted here, identifying it to species and/or gender--whether accurately or erroneously--is mine alone.

No doubt some of the 'identifications' provided here are in error. As--not if ( they are there)--you find such errors, please so corrections may be made. Two lists of species presently included (photos and text) on this site follow: I.

HARVESTMEN: The Biology of Opiliones. Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet (Editors). Harvard University Press 2007. John Hancock. Though my primary passion has always been with. Araneae and I am reluctant to learn a new group of arachnids, I am consistently drawn toward Opiliones.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a much-needed synthesis of what is currently known about these relatives of spiders, focusing on basic conceptual issues in systematics and evolutionary ecology, making comparisons with other well-studied arachnid groups, such as spiders and scorpions. Broad in scope, the volume is aimed at raising relevant questions from a diversity of fields, indicating areas in which additional research is needed. The authors focus on both the unique attributes of harvestmen biology, as well as on biological studies conducted with harvestmen species that contribute to the understanding of behavior and evolutionary biology in general.

Fender Srv Strat Serial Numbers. By providing a broad taxonomic and ecological background for understanding this major arachnid group, the book should give field biologists worldwide the means to identify specimens and provide an invaluable reference for understanding harvestmen diversity and biology.