/newsroom/taxonomy/term/18395/all en /newsroom/channels/news/not-so-sweet-after-all-are-candy-striped-spiders-threat-ecosystems-across-north-america-347859 <div class="bl-tpl">For years, pollinator declines have been a pressing issue for ecosystem health and food security in the face of climate change and human impacts on the environment. Even in their sleep, pollinating insects cannot catch a break – for fear they’ll be taken down by a small, but mighty predator: the candy-striped spider. Research published in <i>Ecology </i>took a closer look into this spider’s behaviour and found that the result of their stealth attacks could have substantial impacts on ecosystems.</div> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:48:17 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 298497 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/spiders-caught-web-internet-lies-341275 <p>It’s no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of misinformation in many areas of life. A collective of researchers, including <a href="http://www.lymanlab.ca/our-team.html">Catherine Scott</a>, Postdoctoral Fellow in Æ»¹ûÒùԺ’s Lyman Lab, have explored this phenomenon as it applies to news about spiders. The verdict? Don’t blindly trust anything you read online about these eight-legged arthropods—or anything else for that matter—and always consider the source.</p> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:45:06 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288342 at /newsroom