Predatory Gall Midge (unofficial common name), Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) (Insecta: Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) by Ryan S. Osborne, Norman C. Leppla, Lance S. Osborne

“… The predatory gall midge, Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot), is one of the most effective and widespread natural enemies of spider mites (Tetranychidae) (Gagne 1995). It is a particularly important natural enemy of the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, in a number of cropping systems (Opit et al. 1997). …”
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Mother-Offspring Relations: Prey Quality and Maternal Size Affect Egg Size of an Acariphagous Lady Beetle in Culture by Eric W. Riddick, Zhixin Wu

“…We fed predators spider mites Tetranychus urticae Koch from lima bean Phaseolus lunatus L. foliage in the laboratory. …”
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Un réseau de sources : figures de l’araignée dans Madame Bovary et La Tentation de saint Antoine by Irene Zanot

“…An image that has crossed literature since Antiquity, the spider appears in Flaubert’s pages like a leitmotif that recurs in several scenes where it carries major meanings for the artist’s poetics. …”
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Wellsina Mite Hemicheyletia wellsina (De Leon) (Arachnida: Acari: Cheyletidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Marjorie A. Hoy

“… This predatory mite was recently discovered in an unsprayed greenhouse at the University of Florida, Gainesville, living on Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium orchids, and assumed to be feeding on orchid pests such as spider mites, tenuipalpid mites, and mealybugs that were present on the orchids. …”
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Wellsina Mite Hemicheyletia wellsina (De Leon) (Arachnida: Acari: Cheyletidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Marjorie A. Hoy

“… This predatory mite was recently discovered in an unsprayed greenhouse at the University of Florida, Gainesville, living on Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium orchids, and assumed to be feeding on orchid pests such as spider mites, tenuipalpid mites, and mealybugs that were present on the orchids. …”
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Mexican Redrump Tarantula, Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Kenneth L. Hibbard

“… In early August 1996, a large black spider with red hairs on its abdomen was collected by citrus grove workers in St. …”
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Mexican Redrump Tarantula, Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Kenneth L. Hibbard

“… In early August 1996, a large black spider with red hairs on its abdomen was collected by citrus grove workers in St. …”
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Biomimetic peptide conjugates as emerging strategies for controlled release from protein-based materials by Juthatip Manissorn, Jaturong Promsuk, Kittikhun Wangkanont, Peerapat Thongnuek

“…Biopolymers, such as collagens, elastin, silk fibroin, spider silk, fibrin, keratin, and resilin have gained significant interest for their potential biomedical applications due to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and mechanical properties. …”
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Loxoscelism: Cutaneous and Hematologic Manifestations by Ngan Nguyen, Manjari Pandey

“…Background. Brown recluse spider (BRS) envenomation can lead to significant morbidity through severe local reaction and systemic illness including acute hemolytic anemia, rhabdomyolysis, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), and even death. …”
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Winter hardiness and biometric indices of introduced strawberry cultivars under plastic film greenhouse conditions in Leningrad Province by S. F. Loginova

“…The primary study focused on the biometric characteristics of strawberry cultivars, their winter hardiness, performance of the full cycle of phenological stages in plant development, resistance to spider mite, and productivity. These are the main criteria for cultivars to be grown in plastic film greenhouses in Leningrad Province. …”
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DSMC: A Novel Distributed Store-Retrieve Approach of Internet Data Using MapReduce Model and Community Detection in Big Data by Xu Xu, Jia Zhao, Gaochao Xu, Yan Ding, Yunmeng Dong

“…The experimental results show that, in the Cloudsim platform, comparing with the traditional web spider, the proposed DSMC approach shows better efficiency and performance.…”
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Hemoadsorption in Multiorgan Failure Due to Viscerocutaneous Loxoscelism by Raúl Valenzuela Córdova, David Rivera Estrella, José F. Bernardo, Darío Jiménez, Celia Rodríguez Tudero, Raúl Elías, José C. De La Flor

“…<i>Background</i>: The bite of the Loxosceles spider is a public health problem around the world, mainly in Latin America. …”
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Multiple Dissipative Devices for Blast-Resisting Cable-Supported Glazing Façades by Claudio Amadio, Chiara Bedon

“…Based on numerical results of previous contributions, viscoelastic spider connectors (VESCs) are introduced in the points of connection between glass panels and pretensioned cables, to replace “rigid” spider connectors commonly used in practice. …”
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Two new species of the Clubiona corticalis group (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Yunnan, China by Minghao Guo, Zhaoyi Li, Feng Zhang

“…Two new species belonging to the corticalis group of the sac spider genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 are described from both males and females: Clubiona longyangensis sp. nov. and Clubiona multiprocessa sp. nov. …”
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La Araña roja, Tetranychus urticae: Ciclo de vida by Nicole Casuso, Hugh A. Smith, Lorena Lopez

“…This is the Spanish translation of ENY-880/IN1059, Pest Identification Guide: Two-spotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch. It was written by Nicole Casuso and Hugh Smith, translated by Lorena Lopez, and published by the UF/IFAS Entomology and Nematology Department. …”
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La Araña roja, Tetranychus urticae: Ciclo de vida by Nicole Casuso, Hugh A. Smith, Lorena Lopez

“…This is the Spanish translation of ENY-880/IN1059, Pest Identification Guide: Two-spotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch. It was written by Nicole Casuso and Hugh Smith, translated by Lorena Lopez, and published by the UF/IFAS Entomology and Nematology Department. …”
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Ovide, Flaubert, Proust : la remise du fuseau d'Arachné by Edi Zollinger

“…A long time before Lowe, already Marcel Proust had found the same silk of a spider and he used it in order to perform his own version of the myth. …”
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Southern Red Mite, Oligonychus ilicis (McGregor) (Arachnida: Acari: Tetranychidae) by Harold A. Denmark, W. C. Welbourn, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…It provides information on this important spider mite pest of broad-leaved evergreens, synonymy, distribution, description and biology, hosts, economic importance, management, and selected references. …”
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Southern Red Mite, Oligonychus ilicis (McGregor) (Arachnida: Acari: Tetranychidae) by Harold A. Denmark, W. C. Welbourn, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…It provides information on this important spider mite pest of broad-leaved evergreens, synonymy, distribution, description and biology, hosts, economic importance, management, and selected references. …”
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Key Plant, Key Pests: Camellia by Juanita Popenoe, Caroline G Roper Warwick, Brian J. Pearson

“…This publication provides information and general management recommendations for algal leaf spot, dieback, twig blight or canker, flower blight, wet root rot diseases, root rots, aphids, scale, spider mites and nutrient deficiencies. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep558 …”
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