The Canadian Arachnologist Newsletter

Background • Back Issues • Feature Articles • Instructions for Authors

Background

The Canadian Arachnologist is a freely-distributed annual newsletter produced and mailed to recipients the first week in May. The goals are to publish feature articles, profile new members, announce conference details and other news of value, and help foster a sense of community. The newsletter was inaugurated at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. The first issue was distributed to approximately 35 Canadian Arachnologists in May 2000 and was edited by David Shorthouse and Christopher Buddle while both were graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences. Since then, the newsletter is distributed annually to over 150 Canadian and international recipients.

Back Issues

		May 2006
		May 2005
		May 2004
		May 2003
		May 2002
		May 2001
		May 2000
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Feature Articles

Recent articles as syndicated content

Issue	Author(s)	Title
May 2006	Bennett, Robb	First international symposium of the CCCP Canmore, Alberta, November 2005 (Tue May 2, 2006)
	Shorthouse, David	Progress on the Canadian Arachnologist website and the Nearctic Spider Database (Tue May 2, 2006)
	Hancock, John	An English amateur (Tue May 2, 2006)
	Marczak, Laurie	What's an arachnologist doing in a stream Ecology lab? (Tue May 2, 2006)
	Slowik, Joey	Canopy surveys the hard way (Tue May 2, 2006)
	Knee, Wayne	Parasitic nasal mites (Rhinonyssidae, Ereynetidae, & Turbinoptidae) associated with birds of Alberta and Manitoba (Tue May 2, 2006)
	Stephen, Charles	The harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) of South-Western Québec forests (Tue May 2, 2006)
May 2005	Sackett, Tara	Immature spiders in orchard foliage (Mon May 2, 2005)
	Frost, Carol	Ballooning in Dolomedes triton (Pisauridae) (Mon May 2, 2005)
	Larrivée, Maxim	Canopy arthropods in hardwood forests of southern Québec (Mon May 2, 2005)
	Paquin, Pierre	Working on the genus from hell (Mon May 2, 2005)
May 2004	Proctor, Heather	Mitey goings on at the University of Alberta
	Kaufman, Reuben	Mini article on big fat ticks!
May 2003	Wade, David	The status of spiders in Manitoba
	Leech, Robin, Matthew G. Wheeler, Robb Bennett, and Brian Thair	Attempted and thwarted mass dispersal of spiders from a field at McBride, British Columbia, Canada (Araneae: Erigonidae & Araneidae)
	Shorthouse, David P.	Assessing individual spider movements
	Korinus, Luisiana	My experiences conducting research in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
	Leech, Robin	Enormous concentration of the wheelhouse spider [Nuctenea patagiata (Clerck)] at the Lake Wabamun power plant wheelhouse (Araneae: Araneidae)
May 2002	Bennett, Robb G.	Hyperbole and hysteria on the path to enlightenment - a review of current Tegenaria projects of relevance to Canadian arachnologists
	Nordstrom, Wayne	Collections in Alberta's far north
	Gregory, T. Ryan	Spiders have genomes too!
May 2001	Buddle, Christopher M.	The case of the missing pedipalps in Cybaeopsis euopla
	Paquin, Pierre	The Canadian spider database
	Holmberg, Robert G.	15th international congress of arachnology: A Canadian perspective
May 2000	Leech, R. E.	Pholcus phalangioides (Fusselin, 1775) (Araneae: Pholcidae) new to Alberta

Instructions for Authors

Articles submitted by April 7^th of the year of publication will be reviewed for the annual May issue. Submissions should be made via email to the editor, David Shorthouse (dps1@ualberta.ca). Microsoft Word is the preferred format with figures as separate jpg attachments. Figure and table captions are best placed at the end of the Word document. To reduce production costs, figures are grayscale. Consequently, high contrast images are preferred. While there are no page limits or fees, articles should be less than 6, 8 ½ X 11 pages in length including figures and tables.