Arachnology

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Arachnology is the scientific study of spiders and related animals such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, collectively called arachnids. However, the study of ticks and mites is sometimes not included in arachnology, but is called Acarology. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. The word arachnology derives from Greek ¿¿¿¿¿¿, arachn¿, "spider"; and -¿¿¿¿¿, -logia. Arachnologists are primarily responsible for classifying arachnids and studying aspects of their biology. In the popular imagination they are sometimes referred to as 'spider experts'. Disciplines within arachnology include naming species and determining their evolutionary relationships to one another (taxonomy and systematics), studying how they interact with other members of their species and/or their environment (behavioural ecology), or how they are distributed in different regions and habitats (faunistics).