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Note on Population Densities of Spiders (Araneae) in Nova Scotia Apple Orchards1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. D. Dondale
C. D. Dondale
Affiliation:
Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory Kentville, Nova Scotia
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Chant (1956) has shown that spiders are common predators in apple orchards in southeast England. Dondale (1956) listed the species of spiders found in Nova Scotia orchards. This is a note on population densities in the latter orchards from 1953 to 1956.

The sampling device used in this study was a cloth-covered, yard-square tray (Lord, 1956), supplemented in a minor way by a collecting umbrella. Each tray or umbrella collection represented the spiders jarred from the lower branches of a single tree, or from the lower branches of half of each of two trees.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 90 , Issue 2 , February 1958 , pp. 111 - 113
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1958

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