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Are candy-striped spiders a threat to North American ecosystems?
Published: 27 April 2023
Research published in Ecology took a closer look into the candy-striped spider鈥檚 diet and behaviour and found that these spiders use a variety of tactics to take down prey much larger than themselves, including sleeping bees and wasps.
鈥淎t a time where the world is facing a biodiversity crisis that includes unprecedented declines of insect pollinators, future studies will help determine whether their benefits as natural pest-controllers outweigh their negative impacts as predators of pollinators, 鈥渟ays Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow in 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Department of Natural Resource Sciences and co-author of the study.
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