Abstract

There are diverse shapes and functions in spider webs. The book covers 74 patterns of webs and 150 species of spiders, and shows how to distinguish them by webs and illustrates their hunting behaviors. The columns referrs to the latest researh trends and will help readers fully enjoy spider webs watching.

Author’s Information

Yuki Baba is a senior fellow at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. He is a councilor of Arachnological Society of Japan and is the chief-editor of the journal "Acta Arachnologica". He broadly investigates the classification, behavior and ecology of spiders and is the author of numerous books about spiders.
Yuya Suzuki has graduated the College of Biological Sciences of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba. He belongs to the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences Kagoshima University. He is interested in the diversity of feeding behavior of spiders and is speciailzed in feeding habits the structure of spider webs.
Akio Tanikawa is the staff of the grauate school of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and is the lecturer at the Tokyo College of Environment. He is a councilor of Arachnological Society of Japan, and is specialized in the classification and phylogeographic study of spiders. He is the author of numerous books about spiders.