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The colonial spider 𝐶𝑦𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑎, has the potential to serve as a biological control agent of the pest 𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑎 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑎. Read the article by Thomas Roberts-McEwen, @DrEllaDeutsch,Dr.@monicaamowery and Dr.@GrinstedLena https://t.co/oWokpcYo1p

🕷 ‘Are they good pets, spiders? Do they recognise you?’ 🕸 @RickEdwards1 asks Dr Ella Deutsh about her pet spiders, Sophia and Pumpkin, as he finds out more about the venomous huntsman spider which was found trapped in a shipping container in Hull. 🎧 Listen @BBCSounds 📲

Lunchtime Live now on @BBCRadioScot. ❓We’ve got PMQs live 🇺🇦 State of emergency announced in Ukraine 😷 Restrictions ending - we hear from @CindyGrayGlas, Prof. of Health & Behaviour at Glasgow Uni 🕷Plus shipping staff discover the world’s largest spider @DrEllaDeutsch

Catch my chat on the stowaway huntsman and other spidery things here (time 25:00) or I'll be speaking to lots of local stations today so might be coming to some airwaves near you!

The innocent face of a cat that loudly scratched the sofa through my entire @bbc5live interview this morning! Will post the recording once it's up if you want to hear about stowaway huntsman spiders, phobias and our eight-legged SpiderLab members Sophia and Pumpkin 🕷🕸

Autumn is a great time of year for spider spotting! Check out these awesome infographics from @Lucy_Lapwing which explain why spiders deserve our love! ❤️🕷️ 1/4 #LoveSpiders #Arachtober @BritishSpiders

Excellent start to #Arachtober - I've officially submitted my thesis and can be a free-range arachnologist again, not hunched over a computer all day! Will miss my tiny thieving Dewdrop spider friends though...

#phdlife special skill - sorting and numbering two weeks worth of receipts while the cat 'helps'...

People usually don't give a shit about these posts about dung spiders and their shitty camouflage. https://t.co/kH9ZaEwT2W

Our 13th year of #Arachtober!! Celebrate arachnids with us by sharing your photos of #spiders, #scorpions, and others #arachnids throughout October. Kickoff banner this year by @zxgirl of a tiny pseudoscorpion. Background texture by exchanged-stock and font by Peter Olexa.

Whirlwind spider hunting trip in #Terceira #azoresislands - amazing place and I wish I'd taken a million more pictures! #phdlife

Just been on @BBCSheffield talking Lady Hale's amazing spider brooch! Feel like a proper political reporter... #spiderbrooch #LadyHale #Prorogation

#SpiderSeason always generates a number of hysterical news articles. Let's redress the balance. Sept & Oct are important months for many spider species as they seek out mates and make provision for the next generation. They are no more 'sex-starved' than any other animal.

Big thanks to Lena Grinsted for leading the study and Manuel Jimenez-Tenorio and Yael Lubin for support! Pics are a colonial Cyrtophora citricola web group and a large female feeding on her web. 🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕷️🌵

It's finally here! A really cool project we have been working on and my very first paper authorship is published online! Evolutionary drivers of group foraging: A new framework for investigating variance in food intake and reproduction https://t.co/Zuoj9DXwmx

Makes a (very) delayed train journey a little more worth it with these little industrious friends at the station! Flies all round tonight 🕷🕸🕷🕸

#PubhD #Nottingham #62: Politics, Biology, Philosophy Three researchers (@Ibzor, @ellakdeutsch, Neil Turnbull) will tell us about their work. The talks are at "pub level" - you don't need to be an academic to understand them! https://t.co/PCvu5BmEVG @VatandFiddle Weds 19th