The Behaviour Act

EMPOWERING ORGANIZATIONS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES

Spiders are the only large arthropod group that uses silk throughout their life; therefore, much effort has been focused on the interactions between ecology, silk, and foraging behaviour. However, it is also becoming clear that spiders can more generally act as model organisms for studies on sexual selection, invertebrate cognition, and animal communication and signalling, as well as their potential role in biological control. Similarly, new promising research directions are being developed that explore plant–spider and spider–microbe interactions.