Single side corrugated cardboard bands were introduced in this project in order to collect arboreal spiders. This method attracks lots of spiders that are looking for refugee sites where they can sit and hide and also lay eggs making this technique very useful when studying the spider community in crops. Bands are attached to the terminal branches of the tree and left them for a week allowing enough time to spiders to come and use the provisional refugee. This technique may be also important for enhancing spider communities in agroecosystems.

 

 

| ©2004 Alejandro Calixto |
| All pictures ©2004 A. Calixto & W. Sterling |
| Department of Entomology |
| Texas A&M University |