Catherine Scott

Publications

• N-3-Methylbutanoyl-O-methylpropanoyl-L-serine Methyl Ester--Pheromone Component of Western Black Widow Females
• Red-throated Caracara, a falconid raptor, rivals predatory impact of army ants on social wasps
• The role of silk in courtship and chemical communication of the false widow spider, Steatoda grossa (Araneae: Theridiidae)
• Two-spotted Spider Mites Respond to Chemical Cues Associated with Conspecifics’ Silk When Choosing a Microhabitat
• A review of the mechanisms and functional roles of male silk use in spider courtship and mating
• Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates
• Life-history data for the funnel weavers Eratigena agrestis and Eratigena atrica (Araneae: Agelenidae) in the Pacific Northwest of North America
• Chemosensory and Behavioural Responses of Ixodes scapularis to Natural Products: Role of Chemosensory Organs in Volatile Detection
• Male black widows parasitize mate-searching effort of rivals to find females faster
• Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database
• Black widows as plastic wallflowers: female choosiness increases with indicators of high mate availability in a natural population
• Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider
• Evidence that web reduction by western black widow males functions in sexual communication
• A meal or a male: the ‘whispers’ of black widow males do not trigger a predatory response in females
• Strike Fast, Strike Hard: The Red-Throated Caracara Exploits Absconding Behavior of Social Wasps during Nest Predation
• Web reduction by courting male black widows renders pheromone-emitting females' webs less attractive to rival males
• Vibration transmission through sheet webs of hobo spiders (Eratigena agrestis) and tangle webs of western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus)
• Developing a paired-target apparatus for quantitative testing of nest defense behavior by vespine wasps in response to con- or heterospecific nest defense pheromones
• The global spread of misinformation on spiders
• An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites
• They mostly come at night: Predation on sleeping insects by introduced candy‐striped spiders in North America
• They mostly come at night: Predation on sleeping insects by introduced candy‐striped spiders in N orth A merica
• Tundra wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) abundance and phenology shift with distance from a northern highway