New review paper on spider-plant interactions in Insects

We have today published a review paper in the special issue of Spider Ecology and Behaviour in Insects that looks into the very interesting, but understudied area of interactions between spiders and plants. Our review paper focusses especially on how web-building...

Blogpost on field work in Madeira

A short blog post on our field work on Madeira in August 2022, written by my collaborator Dr Darko Coteras, has now been published on the website of the Insect Collections at the University of Madeira. We established a very productive collaboration with this group,...

Launch of a new scientific journal focussed on arachnids

The new open access journal Frontiers in Arachnid Science, of which I am an associate editor, for the Arachnid Ecology and Behaviour, has launched. The journal aims to publish high quality research in all areas of arachnid (mainly spiders, harvestmen, scorpions, mites...

Field work in Madeira

At the beginning of August, I spend a week on Madeira doing field work. Madeira is a relatively small isolated oceanic island in the North Atlantic, 400 km north of the Canary Islands, with a subtropical climate. It was an amazing place to do field work with a large...