/newsroom/taxonomy/term/6388/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 /newsroom/channels/news/spiders-who-came-cold-290733 <p>A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded. The findings, by researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº, provide a valuable new benchmark for monitoring biodiversity across Canada’s vast northern expanses.</p> Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:26:49 +0000 jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca 90060 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/pesticides-more-toxic-previously-thought-254401 <p>Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed. Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:56:52 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 24391 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/personalities-spiders-254382 <p>Even jumping spiders have personalities scientists have discovered. A "shy" individual will not make the same choices as a "bold" individual. This means that some individuals, because of their personality type, will capture more prey than others, and will therefore have a larger effect on local ecosystems.</p> <p> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:07:06 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 24388 at /newsroom