Welcome to "Spider Research!"
This site is dedicated to the study of spiders -- their classifications, distributions, and biologies.
Having spent years collecting in the Northeast US with occasional forays elsewhere, I am pleased to be located in Southeastern Montana where very little collecting has been done. I have some preconceptions of what I should find here but those preconceptions are not really useful until (and if!) realized. In the meanwhile I have been collecting a good deal of material and look forward to a good deal more.
I would like to place your records here also. If you have a species collected at a particular location, please feel free to pass it along and I will post it here. Please be as complete as possible where the specimen's data are concerned.
Please bear with me as I begin to formulate this page and make information available. In the meanwhile, if you have questions, comments, or records to share, please e-mail me at carlton47@earthlink.net and I will respond as quickly and appropriately as I can.
It is intended to be a place where information about spiders can be exchanged ... with one caveat. It is not a "Pets" page. It does not address the keeping of spiders or scorpions as pets. There are lots of "Tarantula" pages out there which deal specifically with the pet world. For that kind of information you will do better to look to those pages ... not these.
Thanks for visiting...
Scott Carlton
Available Now:
Montana Spider Work -- Current
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