Books on Spiders
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Spiders are dominant predators in virtually every terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. A marvel of evolution with species numbering in...
Ximena Nelson
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A whole book about spiders may or may not seem to be a book of fear to some, as few...
Nik Ahmad Irwan Izzauddin Nik Him, Suhaila Ab. Hamid, Husni Che Ngah
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This is a photographic guide which showcases about 790 species of spiders that can be found in Singapore. It also...
Joseph K H Koh, David J Court, Chris S P Ang, Paul Y C Ng
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Spiders are super predators and devour everything they can overpower. To do this, they have developed incredibly good catching techniques...
Wolfgang Nentwig, Jutta Ansorg, Angelo Bolzern, Holger Frick , Anne-Sarah Ganske, Ambros Hänggi, Christian Kropf, Anna Stäubli
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There are diverse shapes and functions in spider webs. The book covers 74 patterns of webs and 150 species of...
Yuki Baba, Yuya Suzuki, Akio Tanikawa
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A field guide to the Spider Genera of India is an illustrative guide for 350 spider genera reported from India. This...
Ayan Mondal, Debomay Chanda, Atul Vartak, Siddharth Kulkarni
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In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive...
William Eberhard
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Spiders are among the most versatile creatures on the planet, inhabiting six of the seven continents and thriving in environments...
Norman I. Platnick, Rudy Jocqué, Gustavo Hormiga, Robert Raven, Martín J. Ramírez, Peter Jäger
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As a biodiversity hotspot in tropical Asia, Borneo is a must‑visit destination of naturalists around the world. Borneo’s rainforests offer...
Joseph K H Koh, Nicky Bay
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This book gives an overview the Japanese spider fauna as of May 2018. It contains a collection of colour photos...
Hirotsugu Ono, Kiyoto Ogata
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Describes 1139 species (in 71 families), illustrated with more than 2300 colour photographs of living specimens and 130 microphotos. Information...
Zhisheng Zhang, Luyu Wang
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An identification book of about 100 species of jumping spiders that inhabit Japan. Males, females, and morphs are posted with...
Tatsumi Suguro
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This is a photographic field guide to Hong Kong spiders, including several introductory chapters on classification, biology, and web building....
Dickson Wong
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From indoors to the forest, this book describes 100 common Japanese spiders, with photos on a white background to help...
Yuki Baba, Akio Tanigawa
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Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under...
Leslie Brunetta, Catherine L. Craig
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Spiders provides information on habitat, hunting techniques, anatomy, general characteristics and location of spiders, the most successful of all terrestrial predators...
Stephen Dalton
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Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioral models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their...
Marie Elisabeth Herberstein
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One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behaviour and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive...
Rainer Foelix
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Spiders are of major importance in ecosystems and are recognised as effective natural control agents in agroecology. Nearly 40,000 species...
Rudy Jocque, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman
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Forest Spiders of South East Asia offers the first comprehensive systematic account of all sac and ground spiders of South...
Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold
This is not an exhaustive list, nor does it imply ASA’s endorsement of these books. It is intended purely to inform readers interested in further reading of what is commercially available.