The Araneida Found on Cotton in Central Texas

Abstract

While working for the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Division of Cotton Insect Investigations, at Waco, Texas, the writer encountered numerous species of spiders in examining cotton for insect damage. Most of these spiders are little known and receive only casual notice. Some of them were found to be predators on insects which damage the cotton plant or its fruit.