A fierce-looking brown spider crouching next to the cradle on the reverse side of a painting

Art loving “False Widow,” Steatoda nobilis, found on the back of a small painting displayed on the front porch

#contemporaryart #arachnids #synanthropic #painting

New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt provides an overview of #Arthropod #Ectoparasites of #Synanthropic rodents in northern-central Italy

Read the #OpenAccess article now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/mve.12818

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RESEARCH PAPER 🔬

„We assume that people tend to observe and report #species in their immediate #environment, so there should be a #taxonomic bias towards #synanthropic species on #citizen science platforms.“
- Pernat et al. (2025)

Article:
doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.02.002

There‘s this old witticism that dogs have masters and cats got servants ...

Re the question who domesticated whom (😉) in the latter case there’s this interesting new study on a #synanthropic diet of #Neolithic #cats (via @PNAS, 13 July 2020...