Spiders Bibliography

SPIDERS BIBLIOGRAPHY

California Academy of Sciences Library


 WORLD WIDE WEB

Araneae, Spiders of North-West Europe

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm

This is a great site with a lot of information. It includes images of spiders and information about spider biology and behavior as well as links to other sites and a list of literature consulted in creating the site.

Arachnida

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Arachnida&contgroup=Arthropoda

A simple site full of information, this page from the University of Arizona is an evolutionary tree that links all organisms. The above link takes you directly to the proper page for spider information, but clicking on other tree aspects shows you the relation of spiders to other organisms.

The Arachnology Home Page

http://www.ufsia.ac.be/Arachnology/Arachnology.html

"The Arachnological Hub of the World Wide Web." This site provides access to the variety of arachnid links on the World Wide Web. A great clearinghouse site for finding Internet links.

Black Widow Spiders

http://www.desertusa.com/july97/du_bwindow.html

Good, basic information about Black Widow Spiders.

Headlighting for Spiders

http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/MES/notes/entnote12.html

The Michigan Entomological Society has published a guide to hunting spiders at night using headlights.

Household Spiders-University of Florida

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_IG107

The University of Florida brings this interesting site on dealing with spiders as pests. Pesticides and methods for preventing spider entry into homes are discussed.

Hobo Spider Web Site

http://hobospider.org

Want to know about the Hobo Spider? This is the site for you. This site has it all: photos, references, bite prevention, and natural history information.

Introduction to the Araneae

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae.html

This is a site from the University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. The site provides a bit of information on spiders and spider fossils, and allows you to search the museum collection for spider fossils.

Spiderman: Charles Griswold

http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/pacdis/issues/summer97/hereat.htm

Here’s information about our very own resident spider expert. You can learn why and when he became fascinated with spiders. 

Spiders

http://www.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm

Chock-full of information, this Australian site provides internal links to spider information as well as links to a variety of external sites. Anatomy, first aid for spider bites, and information about the funnel-web spider are featured.

Spiders

http://www.amonline.net.au/webinabox/insects/spiders/index.htm

Information about spiders from the Australian Museum Online.

Spiders Around the Home

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7442.html

This site from UC Davis talks about identification and kinds of spiders. It also gives information on prevention and non-chemical control of spiders in the home.

Spiders - Gardening in Western Washington

http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/inse005/inse005.htm

Are there ways to manage spiders in the home? What are some reasons that people fear spiders? These are two questions that you can find some answers to at the above site.

Spiders - Residential, Structural and Community Pests

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/spiders.htm

The site above provides information about spiders and tips on how to avoid spider bites.

Curriculum Resources on the WWW

Spiders

http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/spiders/welcome.html

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BOOKS

Bristowe, W. S. The World of Spiders. London, Collins, 1971. Ent QL451 .B75 1971.

Crompton, John. The Life of the Spider. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951, 1950. Ent QL452 .C76 1951.

D’Andrea, Marcello. Social Behaviour in Spiders. Firenze: Universita degli Studi di Firenze, 1997. Main QL458.4 .D36 1987.

Dondale, Charles D. The Wolf Spiders, Nurseryweb Spiders, and Lynx Spiders of Canada and Alaska. Ottowa, Canada: Agriculture Canada, 1990. Ent QL458.42 .L9 D66 1990.

Emerton, J. H. The Common Spiders of the United States. New York, Dover Publications, 1961. CAS Ent QL457.1 .E44 1961. Public QL457.1 .E44 1961. CAS Ref Ql457.1 .E44 1961.

Foelix, Rainer F. Biology of Spiders. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Ref & Ent QL458.4 .F6313 1982.

Fraser, Jack Bryan. Common Orb Weavers of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Ramon, Calif.: J.B. Fraser, 1991. Ent QL458.42.A7 F72 1991.

Friedlander, C. P. Insects and Spiders: a Book of Keys with Biological Notes. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. Ent QL464 .F74 1956.

Gertsch, Willis John. American Spiders. 2d ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1979. Ent QL458.4 .G47 1978.

Hammen, L. Van Der. An Introduction to Comparative Arachnology. The Hague, The Netherlands. SPB Academic Public., 1989. Ent QL451.H35 1989.

Jones, Dick. Spider: the Story of a Predator and its Prey. New York, N.Y.: Facts On File Publications, 1986. Ent QL458.4 .J66 1986.

Kaston, B. J. How to Know the Spiders. 2d ed. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown, 1972. Ent QL458.4 .K36 1972. CAS Ref QL458.4 .K36 1972.

Kaston, B. J. How to Know the Spiders. 3d ed. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown, 1978. Ent QL458.4 .K36 1978.

Levi, Herbert, Walter. Spiders and their Kin. Public QL452 .L48 1990. Ref QL452 .L48 1990.

Linssen, E. F. The Observer's Book of Common Insects and Spiders. London; New York: F. Warne & Co., 1962, 1953 Ent QL482.G7 L56 1962.

Lund, Dale. All About Tarantulas. Neptune City, NJ.:THF Publications, 1977. Ent. SF459.S54 L9 1977.

Platnick, Norman I. The Ground Spiders of Canada and Alaska. Ottowa, Canada: Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, 1991. Ent QL458.42 .G5 P52 1991.

Preston-Mafham, Rod. The Book of Spiders. Royston, England: Eagle Editions, 1998. Ent QL451 .P73 1998.

Preston-Mafham, Rod. Spiders of the World. Poole: Blandford, 1984. Ent QL485.4 .P74 1984.

Roth, Vincent D. Handbook for Spider Identification. Portal, Arizona: V. D. Roth, 1982. Ent QL458.4 .R68 1982.

Roth, Vincent D. Spider Genera of North America: With Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature. Gainesville, FL: Sold on behalf of the American Archnological Society, available from J. Reiskind, Dept. Zool., Univ. of Florida, 1985. Ent & Ref QL458.4 .R685 1985.

Roth, Vincent D. Spider Genera of North America: With Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature. Gainesville, FL: Sold on behalf of the American Archnological Society, available from J. Reiskind, Dept. Zool., Univ. of Florida, 1985. Ent QL458.4 .R685 1993.

Savory, Theodore Horace. Arachnida. London; New York, Academic Press, 1964. Ent QL451 .S28 1964.

Savory, Theodore Horace. The Spider's Web. London; New York: Warne, 1952. Ent QL459 .S38 1952.

Shear, William A. Ed. Spiders--Webs, Behaviour, and Evolution. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986. Ent QL458.4 .S66 1986.

Simon-Brunet, Bert. The Silken Web: A Natural History of Australian Spiders. Chatswood, Australia: Reed, 1994. Ent QL458.4 .S555 1994.

Smith, Andrew. Baboon Spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. Lond, England: Fitzgerald Publishing, 1990. Ent QL458.42 .T5 S532 1990.

Smith, Andrew M. Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico. London: Fitzgerald Publishing, 1994. Ent QL458.42.T5 S55 1994.

Sung, Ta-hsiang. The Spiders of China. Shijazhuang, China Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, 1999. Ent QL458.4 .S86 1999.

Wise, David H. Spiders in Ecological Webs. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Ent QL458.4 .W57 1993.

Witt, Peter N. and Jerome S. Rovner, eds. Spider Communication: Mechanisms and Ecological Significance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. Ent QL458.4 .S65 1982.

Woelflein, Luise. The Spider. New York, N.Y. Stewart, Tabori & Chang: Distributed in the U.S. by Workman Pub., 1992. Ent QL452.2 .W63 1992.

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Amato, Carol A. Adios Chi Chi. Hauppauge ,New York: Barron’s, 1996. Pub Juv QL458.42 .T5 A47 1996.

Biel, Timothy L. Spiders. Mankato, Minn.: Creative Education, 1991. Biodiv QL452.2 .B54 1991 Juv.

Carle, Eric. The Very Busy Spider. New York: Philomel Books, 1984. Public PZ7.C21476 Vc 1984 Juv.

Climo, Shirley. Someone saw a Spider: Spider Facts and Folktales. New York: Crowell, 1985. Public PZ8.1.C592 So 1985 Juv.

Danks, Hugh. The Bug Book and Bug Bottle. New York: Workman Publishing, 1987. Public Juv. QL467.2.D36 1987.

Fleischman, Paul. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. Pub Juv PS3556.L42268 J69 1988.

Goor, Ron and Nancy Goor. Insect Metamorphosis. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1990. Public Juv. QL494.5.G66 1990.

Hillyard, P. D. A Look Inside Spiders and Scorpions. Pleasantville, N. Y. Reader's Digest Young Families, 1995. Public Q:452.2 .H55 1995 Juv.

Kilpatrick, Cathy. Creepy Crawlies. Insects and Other Tiny Animals. London, UK: Usborne Publishing Co., 1990. Public Juv. QL467.2.K56 1990.

Loewer, Peter. The Inside-Out Stomach: Introduction to Animals Without Backbones. New York: MacMillan Childís Group, 1990. Pub Juv QL362.L64 1990.

Lovett, Sarah. Extremely Weird Spiders. Santa Fe, N.M; John Muir Publications, 1991. Public QL485.4 .L68 1991 Juv.

McNulty, Faity. The Lady and the Spider. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. CAS Public PZ10.3.M456 Lad 1987 Juv.

Norsgaard, E.J. Nature's Great Balancing Act: In Our Own Backyard. New York: Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1990. Biodiv Juv. QH541.14.N67 1990.

Parker, Nancy W. and Joan R. Wright. Bugs. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1987. Pub Juv QL467.2.P35 1987.

Parsons, Alexandra. Asombrosas Aranas. London: Bruno, 1990. Pub Juv QL458.4 .P3718 1990.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. The Lives of Spiders. Holiday House, 1980. Public QL458.4 .P37 1980 Juv.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Spider Magic. New York: Holiday House, 1982. Public QL458.4 .P38 1982 Juv.

Petty, Kate. Aves de Presa. Mexico: Fernandez Editores, 1994. Ent QL696.F3 P4818 1994 Juv.

Ryder, Joanne. Step Into the Night. New York: MacMillan Childís Group, 1988. Pub Juv PZ7.R9752 St. 1988.

Schnieper, Claudia. Amazing Spiders. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1989. Public QL458.4 .S3613 1989 Juv.

Selsam, Millicent E. A First Look at Insects. New York: Walker and Company, 1974. Pub Juv QL467.2.S438 1974.

Selsam, Millicent E. and Ronald Goor. Backyard Insects. Illustrated by Ron Goor. New York: Four Winds Press, 1983. Pub Juv QL467.2.S437 1981.

Shepherd, Elizabeth. No Bones: A Key to Bugs and Slugs, Worms and Ticks, Spiders and Centipedes, and Other Creepy Crawlies. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1988. Public QL362 .S537 1988 Juv.

Shuttlesworth, Dorothy Edwards. The Story of Spiders. Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Books, 1959. Ent & Pub Juv. QL452 .S5 1959.

Silverstein, Alvin and Virginia. Nature's Living Lights: Fireflies and Other Bioluminous Creatures. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1988. Pub Juv QH641.S54 1988.

VanCleave, Janice Pratt. Janice VanCleave’s Insects and Spiders: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn Into Science Fair Projects. New York, N.Y.: Wiley, 1998. Pub Juv QL467.2 .V345 1998.

VanCleave, Janice Pratt. Janice VanCleave’s Play and Find Out About Bugs: Easy Experiments for Young Children. New York, N.Y.: Wiley, 1999. Pub Juv QL486.5 .V34 1999.

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MULTIMEDIA & AUDIO/VISUAL

CD-ROM

A World of Animals. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1994. Pub AV&M QL49 .W67 1994

VIDEO

Amazing Poisonous Animals. New York: DK Vision, 1996. Pub. QL100.A43 1996.

Bug City: Spiders & Scorpions. Wynnewood, PA: Schlessinger Media, 1998. Pub AV&M QL467.2 .B83 1998 tape 10.

Monster. New York: DK Vision, 1997. Pub. QL100.M66 1997.

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