Current and past research projects organized by lead investigator(s)
Urban behavioral ecology of the black widow spider: flexibility of the integrated behavioral phenotype across a gradient of human disturbance
Male mate choice in black widows: chemical and physical cues facilitate a male preference for high-condition females that never engage in pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism
Lindsay Miles & Patricia Trubl
The evolutionary ecology of black widow development: from trophic eggs to sexual cannibals
Wasteful killing in urban black widows: gluttony in response to food abundance
Cannibalism in black widows: a test of the residency hypothesis
Chemical prey cues influence the urban microhabitat preferences of Western black widow spiders, Latrodectus hesperus
Population genetics of black widows: an evaluation of genetic variation among widow individuals, populations and species using AFLP genotyping
No spider left behind: Outreach and K-12 education using black widows
Past student collaborators and their projects
Kathryn Kitchen The effects of kin selection and family on juvenile cannibalism in the Black Widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus
Claudia Torres The adaptive significance of death feigning (thanatosis) in black widow spiders.
