Posts Tagged: University of Idaho
Tarantulas to Grab the Spotlight at UC Davis Seminar on April 21
What do tarantulas and Johnny Cash have in common? They share a name, for one thing. When...
This tarantula is a male Aphonopelma johnnycashi. (Wikipedia image: credit,Chris A. Hamilton, Brent E. Hendrixson, Jason E. Bond - “Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States”, in ZooKeys, volume 560, 2016.
Chris Hamilton to Speak on Tarantula Diversity
Evolutionary biologist and taxonomist Chris Hamilton of the University of Idaho faculty will...
Chris Hamilton of the University of Idaho will present a UC Davis seminar on tarantula diversity on April 21. This is an undescribed species collected on the mountain ranges, the Sky Islands, in southeastern Arizona. (Photo by Brent E. Hendrixson)
Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules
Size does matter. Have you ever wondered about sexual size dimorphism in the tropical spiders, the...
A female Trichonephila clavipes (formerly Nephila clavipes) is a giant compared to her small male (below). The research covers a complex pattern of sexual size dimorphism in this group of spiders, family Nephilidae. (Image copyright by Chris Hamilton, University of Idaho)
Shirley Luckhart to Deliver ESA's Founders' Memorial Award Lecture
Molecular biologist Shirley Luckhart, a former UC Davis professor who joined the University of...
Sanford Eigenbrode: Chemical Ecology in Aphid-Plant-Virus Pathosystems, May 22 Seminar
DAVIS--Sanford Eigenbrode, professor and chair of the Division of Entomology at the University of...