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Projects

 
Spider Collection

Start a collection of local spiders for your school or nature center.

 
Adaptive biology and ecology

Describe different types of webs found in your area and characterize specific adaptations and the advantages and disadvantages of each and how they fill different niches.

 

Web mechanics

Make and test your own sticky webs and and perform cost/benefit analyses.

 

Environmental health

Survey and compare spider populations in two or more habitats near your home.

 

Environmental remediation

Create and compare spider-friendly microhabitats in your garden.

 

Toxicology

Describe the effects of chemicals on web construction

 

Biomechanics

Make a functional model of a spider leg.

 

Biomechanics

Make a functional model of a mechano-sensitive hair.

 

Adaptive biology

Describe and compare the predatory behavior of two species of spiders against different prey.

 

Time-lapse photography

Use a webcam and a computer to make a time-lapse video record of the building of a web.

 

Neurobiology

Make an inexpensive electrophysiology rig to listen to and record the effects venoms on insect nerves and muscles.

 

Biochemistry

Discover, isolate and characterize a new toxin.

 

Circadian rhythms

Use a webcam and computer to explore daily activity patters and circadian rhythms of different spiders. Are these patterns disturbed by light pollution?

 

 
 

 

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