Author

Pooja Rao

Pooja Rao is an invertebrate zoology instructor at a community college, where she maintains a teaching spider collection. Her focus is spider and scorpion biology. Rao, who grows hot peppers to craft small-batch hot sauce, received an MS from the University of Miami and a BS from the University of Oklahoma, following work as an adjunct instructor and laboratory technician.

How to Tell If a Spider Is Male or Female?
Do Spiders Kill Their Mates and Why Does it Happen?
Diving Bell Spider: The Only Spider That Lives Underwater
How Poisonous Is a Black Widow Spider, Really?
Do Pill Bugs Exhibit Dominance Behaviors?
What Spiders Kill Brown Recluse Spiders?
How to Identify a Funnel-Web Spider
Do Jumping Spiders Play? What the Science Says
Are Scorpions Smart? Exploring Their Cognitive Abilities
Do Jumping Spiders Have Brains?
Do Spiders Eat Millipedes? The Science of a Rare Hunt
Do Spiders Have Senses? How They Perceive the World
Do Spiders Have Cerci? Explaining Their Anatomy
How to Tell One Species of Scorpion From Another
How to Attract Scorpions for Observation and Collection
Do Spiders Sleep? The Science of Spider Slumber
Can You Train a Spider? The Limits of Arachnid Learning
What Are Pedipalps? Anatomy, Function, and Evolution
How to Milk a Scorpion: Methods and Applications
What Does a Parson Spider Bite Look Like?
What Does a Sydney Funnel Web Spider Bite Look Like?
Can Jumping Spiders Swim and How They Survive Water
Can Spiders Remember You and Recognize Individual Humans?
Do Wolf Spiders Burrow? How to Identify Their Holes
Spider Temperature Preferences: Do They Like Hot or Cold?
How to Identify a False Widow Spider?
Do Spiders Remember You? The Science Behind Their Memory
How Dangerous Are Wolf Spiders and Their Bites?
How Poisonous Are Brown Widow Spiders?
Are Sac Spiders Venomous and Dangerous to Humans?