An estimated 400–800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community

Plant-eating by spiders

(2016) Martin Nyffeler et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Organic farming affects the biological control of hemipteran pests and yields in spring barley independent of landscape complexity

(2015) K. Birkhofer et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Trophic specialisation in a predatory group: the case of prey-specialised spiders (Araneae)

(2014) Stano Pekár et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Life on the fly: phylogenetics and evolution of the helicopter damselflies (Odonata, Pseudostigmatidae)

(2012) Spencer J. Ingley et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

The global relationship between climate, net primary production and the diet of spiders

(2011) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biology ofStenolemus giraffa(Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a web invading, araneophagic assassin bug from Australia

(2011) FG Soley et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Flower-visiting and mating behaviour of Eulonchus sapphirinus (Diptera: Acroceridae)

(2009) Christopher J. Borkent et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Insectivorous activities of spiders in United States field crops

(2009) M. Nyffeler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Cursorial spiders retard initial aphid population growth at low densities in winter wheat

(2008) K. Birkhofer et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Natural History of the Scuttle Fly,Megaselia scalaris

(2007) R.H.L. Disney   Annual Review of Entomology