John Apple On True Spiders
John Apple of Michigan has decades of experience with arachnids and a passion for the true, or araneomorph, spiders. In this presentation, on March 13, 2015 at the 2nd Annual ArachnoGathering at NARBC, Tinley Park Convention Center, Tinley Park, Illinois, John shares his wealth of experience with the care and habits of widow spiders (Latrodectus) and other favorite spiders. John's presentation includes his own photographs as well as those of Tom Patterson, Frank Somma and Michael Jacobi (exoticfauna.com). It touches on the captive husbandry of Theridiidae, Sicariidae, Pisauriidae, Sparassidae and Ctenidae families and concludes with field notes on other spiders like Argiope sp. (Araneidae).
John Apple of Michigan has decades of experience with arachnids and a passion for the true, or araneomorph, spiders. In this presentation, on March 13, 2015 at the 2nd Annual ArachnoGathering at NARBC, Tinley Park Convention Center, Tinley Park, Illinois, John shares his wealth of experience with the care and habits of widow spiders (Latrodectus) and other favorite spiders. John's presentation includes his own photographs as well as those of Tom Patterson, Frank Somma and Michael Jacobi (exoticfauna.com). It touches on the captive husbandry of Theridiidae, Sicariidae, Pisauriidae, Sparassidae and Ctenidae families and concludes with field notes on other spiders like Argiope sp. (Araneidae).