Social Spiders

Web height above ground (cm) and colony size for 17 colonies of the spider Cryptophora citricola in Gabon.

Usage

SpiderColonies

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 3 variables.

colony

identifier

height

height of web above ground (cm)

spiders

number of spiders in colony

Source

Rypstra, A. L. 1979. Foraging folks of spiders, a study of aggregate behavior in Cryptophora citricola Forskal (Araneae: Araneidae) in West Africa. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 5: 291-300.

Examples

str(SpiderColonies)
#> 'data.frame':	17 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ colony : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#>  $ height : int  90 150 270 320 180 380 200 120 240 120 ...
#>  $ spiders: int  17 32 96 195 372 135 83 36 85 20 ...
SpiderColonies
#>    colony height spiders
#> 1       1     90      17
#> 2       2    150      32
#> 3       3    270      96
#> 4       4    320     195
#> 5       5    180     372
#> 6       6    380     135
#> 7       7    200      83
#> 8       8    120      36
#> 9       9    240      85
#> 10     10    120      20
#> 11     11    210      82
#> 12     12    250      95
#> 13     13    140      59
#> 14     14    300      89
#> 15     15    290     152
#> 16     16    180      62
#> 17     17    280      64