Arachnology

silk structure woven by a spider, designed to catch prey

thumb|Trichonephila clavipes

thumb|The Acari are identified in acarology as a [[taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks. They are an example of something an acarologist would study.]] Acarology (from Ancient Greek /, , a type of mite; and , -logy|) is the study of mites and ticks, the animals in the order Acarina. It is a subfield of arachnology, a subdiscipline of the field of zoology. A zoologist specializing in acarology is called an acarologist. Acarologists may also be parasitologists because many members of Acarina are parasitic. Many acarologists are studying around the world both professionally and as ama

taxonomic database

behaviour in which spiders and some other invertebrates use air-borne dispersal to move between locations