An undergraduate project on edge effects in prey capture of Metellina mengei (family Tetragnathiae) in Wytham Woods near Oxford by Madeline Richards, has now been published in Animal Biology. The study builds on a previous study of web geometry, and finds that neither...
As part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr Stefano Mammola and Dr Enrico Lunghi (both upcoming stars in the area of subterranean ecology), I have been involved in a neat little study on how the broadly distributed European cave orb spiders segregate not only along...
The study arising from the very interesting horizon scan workshop that I participated in in May of last year has now been published in Oikos. It has been very interesting to be part of multiple author paper expertly lead by Prof Zenobia Lewis from the University of...
I have had the great pleasure of being involved in a study on invertebrates in Gcwihaba cave in Botswana (sadly remotely so far, although I hope to visit the cave one day). The cave is the largest one in Botswana, and relatively well visited by tourists, but...
The latest issue of the New Scientist (8 Feb 2020) has an interesting article on spider cognition written by the science journalist and writer David Robson. While the article focus somewhat on the impressive cognitive abilities of the jumping spider Portia (although I...
In a funny coincidence, the pre-published manuscript of the black solider fly paper that I co-authored, which I submitted to ORA (Oxford University Research Archive), was the 35,000th paper to be deposited to the archive (yay it is almost like winning the...
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