Insects and arachnids are fundamental for human society. (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Insects and arachnids are fundamental for human society.

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Lead author Wes Walsh, his tattoo of Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (the Pennsylvanian grass spider) and one of the inspirations for this study, a live Platycryptus undatus (tan jumping spider).

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Wes Walsh

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