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.