The Canadian Arachnologist Newsletter

Background • Back Issues • Feature Articles • Instructions for Authors

Background

The Canadian Arachnologist is a freely-distributed annual newsletter produced and mailed to recipients the first week in May. The goals are to publish feature articles, profile new members, announce conference details and other news of value, and help foster a sense of community. The newsletter was inaugurated at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. The first issue was distributed to approximately 35 Canadian Arachnologists in May 2000 and was edited by David Shorthouse and Christopher Buddle while both were graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences. Since then, the newsletter is distributed annually to over 150 Canadian and international recipients. Production of the newsletter would not be possible without modest, external funding. The newsletter is currently edited by Dr. Robin Leech.

Back Issues

	May 2007	May 2000
	May 2006
	May 2005
	May 2004
	May 2003
	May 2002
	May 2001


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Feature Articles

Recent articles as syndicated content

Issue	Author(s)	Title
May 2007	Anonymous	Arachnological symposia and submitted papers, a summary of: Société d'Entomologie du Québec Entomological Society of Canada Joint Annual Meeting - 18-22 November 2006, Montreal, QC (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Anonymous	Dr. Charles Denton Dondale, pioneer of Canadian araneology (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Shorthouse, David P.	Spider WebWatch: A new citizen science initiative (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Holmberg, Robert	Reminiscences about Bert Turnbull (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Slowik, Joey	A spider tale (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Schwartz, Patricia Roth	In search of Madla's Cave webweaver (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Wigney, Bev	Spider Ranch: The evolution of a spider garden (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Monk, Sheri	When hairy met Sheri (Mon, 02 May 2007)
	Hancock, John	Book Review, HARVESTMEN: The Biology of Opiliones (Mon, 02 May 2007)
May 2006	Bennett, Robb	First international symposium of the CCCP Canmore, Alberta, November 2005 (Tue, 02 May 2006)
	Shorthouse, David	Progress on the Canadian Arachnologist website and the Nearctic Spider Database (Tue, 02 May 2006)
	Hancock, John	An English amateur (Tue, 02 May 2006)
	Marczak, Laurie	What's an arachnologist doing in a stream Ecology lab? (Tue, 02 May 2006)
	Slowik, Joey	Canopy surveys the hard way (Tue, 02 May 2006)
	Knee, Wayne	Parasitic nasal mites (Rhinonyssidae, Ereynetidae, & Turbinoptidae) associated with birds of Alberta and Manitoba (Tue, 02 May 2006)
	Stephen, Charles	The harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) of South-Western Québec forests (Tue, 02 May 2006)
May 2005	Sackett, Tara	Immature spiders in orchard foliage (Mon, 02 May 2005)
	Frost, Carol	Ballooning in Dolomedes triton (Pisauridae) (Mon, 02 May 2005)
	Larrivee, Maxim	Canopy arthropods in hardwood forests of southern Québec (Mon, 02 May 2005)
	Paquin, Pierre	Working on the genus from hell (Mon, 02 May 2005)
May 2004	Proctor, Heather	Mitey goings on at the University of Alberta
	Kaufman, Reuben	Mini article on big fat ticks!
May 2003	Wade, David	The status of spiders in Manitoba
	Leech, Robin, Matthew G. Wheeler, Robb Bennett, and Brian Thair	Attempted and thwarted mass dispersal of spiders from a field at McBride, British Columbia, Canada (Araneae: Erigonidae & Araneidae)
	Shorthouse, David P.	Assessing individual spider movements
	Korinus, Luisiana	My experiences conducting research in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
	Leech, Robin	Enormous concentration of the wheelhouse spider [Nuctenea patagiata (Clerck)] at the Lake Wabamun power plant wheelhouse (Araneae: Araneidae)
May 2002	Bennett, Robb G.	Hyperbole and hysteria on the path to enlightenment - a review of current Tegenaria projects of relevance to Canadian arachnologists
	Nordstrom, Wayne	Collections in Alberta's far north
	Gregory, T. Ryan	Spiders have genomes too!
May 2001	Buddle, Christopher M.	The case of the missing pedipalps in Cybaeopsis euopla
	Paquin, Pierre	The Canadian spider database
	Holmberg, Robert G.	15th international congress of arachnology: A Canadian perspective
May 2000	Leech, R. E.	Pholcus phalangioides (Fusselin, 1775) (Araneae: Pholcidae) new to Alberta

Instructions for Authors

Articles submitted by April 4^th of the year of publication will be reviewed for the annual May issue. Submissions should be made via email to the editor, Dr. Robin Leech (rleech(at)telusplanet.net). Microsoft Word is the preferred format with figures as separate jpg attachments. Figure and table captions are best placed at the end of the Word document. To reduce production costs, figures are grayscale. Consequently, high contrast images are preferred. While there are no page limits or fees, articles should be less than 6, 8 ½ X 11 pages in length including figures and tables.