Daniel Zurek

After publishing the first round of results in Behavioral Ecology a few months back, here is a set of visualizations about what females focus on during male courtship dances. Go to https://arachnar...

Here is our last dispatch from the field, this time from North Padre Island near Corpus Christi, TX. It covers the last part of our collecting trip, taking us from Del Rio, TX along the Rio Grande ...

This dispatch covers our exploits in eastern Arizona, New Mexico, and Western Texas. Highlight are the spectacular Habronattus "Canyon City" we found in the Davis Mountains (TX). See them from 01:4...

Our newest dispatch comes from the beautiful Santa Rita mountains south of Tucson, AZ. Patrick Butler is back in Pittsburgh, but we're now joined by professional macro photographer and bug expert, ...

Dear Backers,we spent the last few days in and around Yuma, Arizona, and explored some new field sites. We caught a sufficiently large number of two of our target species, check out our newest vide...

Dear Backers,As of Monday, we are in Arizona hunting for spiders. Our first field site was very densely populated this year! Excellent start to a full month of field work. See our first video dispa...

Dear Backers,You haven't heard from us in a while, we've been busy preparing for our upcoming trip to the Southwest. Thanks to your contributions, we were able to book flights and a vehicle for a f...

Happy New Year!I wanted to share a video still from the new camera equipment you supported. Often, the conspicuous coloration of male jumping spiders doesn't appear until they are adults. One of th...