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

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

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

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Checklist of Kansas Orbweaving Spiders
by Hank Guarisco

REFERENCES
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2. Blackledge, T.A. and K.M. Pickett. 2000. Predatory interactions between mud-dauber wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) and Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae) in captivity. The Journal of Arachnology 28(2): 211 - 216.

3. Blackledge, T.A. and J.W. Wenzel. 2001. Silk mediated defense by an orb web spider against predatory mud-dauber wasps. Behaviour 138: 155 - 171.

4. Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. 1995. A review of the anti-predator devices of spiders. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10(3): 81 - 96.

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15. Guarisco, H. 1998. Caudal false face pattern in an orbweaving spider, Eustala sp. (Argiopidae) from western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 101(3 - 4): 138 - 139.

16. Guarisco, H. 1999. Distributional status and natural history observations of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 102(3 - 4): 138 - 141.

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30. Levi, H.W. 1976. The orb-weaver genera Verrucosa, Acanthepeira, Wagneriana, Acacesia, Wixia, Scoloderus and Alpaida north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147(8): 351 - 391.

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