Who's Behind Spider WebWatch?

  Richard Adams, an active contributor of specimen records to The Nearctic Spider Database, was the first to propose a public Spider WebWatch. Choosing nine species among approximately 4,400 species of spiders was not an easy task and nor was designing this WebWatch system. Don Buckle, Bev Wigney, Joey Slowik, John Hancock, among others offered their advice on the selection of species via The Nearctic Arachnologists' Forum February, 2007 (see discussion) and via offlist email messages. David Shorthouse developed and continues to maintain the Spider WebWatch database and associated technologies.

Spider WebWatch c/o David Shorthouse Encyclopedia of Life Marine Biological Laboratory, Broderick House 7 MBL Street Woods Hole, MA 02543 Email address (preferred):