MYGALOMORPH spiders are notoriously absent from oceanic ... It is interesting, therefore, to record the occurrence in Samoa of Idioctis helva L. Koch, one of the Barychelidæ.

Single guys will go to great lengths to get the girl. For black widow spiders, that sometimes means visiting a female's web and ripping it to shreds. With 40 males for every female in a given ...