Volume 52, Number 2, September 2005:
Checklist of Kansas Orbweaving Spiders

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- 1-6
- 7-16
- the orb web, prey, and economic importance
- 17-22
- 23-28
- predators, parasites and spider defenses
- Kansas orb weavers
- argiopidae
- tetragnathidae
- references
- acknowledgements

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Checklist of Kansas Orbweaving Spiders
by Hank Guarisco

Author: Hank Guarisco is Adjunct Curator of Arachnids at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University. His mailing address is: P.O. Box 4692, Lawrence, KS 66046. He is also co-author of two previous Kansas School Naturalist issues: Checklist of Kansas Jumping Spiders by Hank Guarisco, Bruce Cutler and Kenneth E. Kinman (Vol. 47, No. 1, February 2001) and Checklist of Kansas Crab Spiders by Hank Guarisco, Bruce Cutler and Dan Jennings (Vol. 49, No. 1, May 2003).