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Carignan (also known as Mazuelo Bovale Grande Cariñena Samsó and Carignane) is a red Spanish/French wine grape variety that is widely planted throughout the western Mediterranean and across the globe.

Lynx spider is the common name for any member of the family Oxyopidae. Most species make little use of webs instead spending their lives as hunting spiders on plants. Many […]

The filmy dome spider (Neriene radiata AKA Prolinyphia marginata and others in this genus) is a sheet weaver: a spider in the family Linyphiidae. These spiders construct a dome of […]

Nursery web spiders are spiders of the family Pisauridae. They resemble wolf spiders (family Lycosidae) but they carry their egg sacs by means of their jaws and pedipalps (instead of […]

The American grass spiders are members of the genus Agelenopsis. They weave sheet webs that have a funnel shelter on one edge. The web is not sticky but these spiders […]

Latrodectus is a genus of spider in the family Theridiidae which contains 32 recognized species. The black widow spider is perhaps the best-known member of the genus. The venomous bite […]

Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae) is a family of spiders known as huntsman spiders because of their speed and mode of hunting. They also are called giant crab spiders because of their […]

The house dust mite (sometimes referred to by allergists as HDM) is a cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human […]

Cheiracanthium inclusum alternately known as the black-footed yellow sac spider or the American yellow sac spider (in order to distinguish it from its European cousin C. punctorium) was formerly classified […]

Atracinae commonly known as Australian funnel-web spiders is a subfamily of spiders in the funnel-web spider family Hexathelidae. Atracinae consists of three genera: Atrax Hadronyche and Illawarra. The subfamily includes […]