Jumping Spiders Can Learn to Avoid Red, Toxic Bugs; Stay Alive Longer and Eat Agricultural Pests
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
Learning to distinguish the color red means jumping spiders can stay alive longer and eat pests ranging from caterpillars to beetles to flies, many of which damage agricultural products, said Lisa Taylor, an assistant research scientist in entomology at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Jumping spiders are fairly ubiquitous: More than 5,000 species are found on every continent except Antarctica.