Title:

Influence of spiders on the behaviour of mosquito populations

Subtitle:

Wpływ pająków na zachowwanie się populacji komarów

Creator:

Dąbrowska-Prot, Eliza

Contributor:

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ecology

Publisher:

Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

1970

Description:

Pages 531-537 : illustrations ; 24 cm ; Bibliographical references (page 537) ; Abstract in Polish

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

spiders ; food ; mosquitoes ; predators ; Araneae ; Culicidae

Abstract:

Studies were made of the influence of the wandering spider Dolomedes fimbriatus Clerck and the web spider Tetragnatha montana Simon on the behaviour of their preys - mosquitoes. It was found that these predators caused changes in the intensivity with which the mosquitoes penetrated the habitat and in their vertical distribution in the vegetation and above it. A relation was found between the behaviour of the mosquitoes and the rate of their reduction by spiders.

References:

1. Dąbrowska-Prot, E. 1966 - Experimental studies on the reduction of the abundance of mosquitoes by spiders. II. Activity of mosquitoes in cages - Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. Cl. II, 14: 771-775.
2. Dąbrowska-Prot, E., Łuczak, J. 1968 - Studies on the incidence of mosquitoes in the food of Tetragnatha montana Simon and its food activity in the natural habitat - Ekol. Pol. A, 16: 843-853.
3. Dąbrowska-Prot, E., Łuczak, J., Tarwid, K. 1968 - Prey and predator density and their reactions in the process of mosquito reduction by spiders in field experiments - Ekol. Pol. A, 16: 773-819.

Relation:

Ekologia Polska

Volume:

18

Issue:

26

Start page:

531

End page:

537

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

MiIZ PAN, call no. P.2840 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

pol

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 3.0 PL license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 3.0 PL] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 3.0 PL license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget.

Access:

Open