One year’s worth of references for Creature Feature

I’ve gotten into the bad habit of not posting links to the scientific publications upon which my Creature Feature columns are based. Unfortunately, the length and format of the column are incompatible with including references in the pieces themselves, but I’ve been meaning to post links on my blog. My only new year’s resolution is to start sharing these links, so here’s everything for last year! Many of these links are pay-walled; email me if you want a PDF of anything in particular.

1. Golden Orb Web Spiders:

• Schneider and Elgar 2000: Sexual cannibalism
• Craig et al. 1996: Web coloration and prey attraction
• Kuntner et al. 2012: Gigantism
• Zhang et al 2011 and Knowlton 2010: Ant avoidance

2. Antlions and Helmeted basilisks:

• All things antlion can be found here.
• Andrews 1979: Corytophanes feeding behaviour
• Gradstein and Equihua 1995 and Townsend et al. 2005: organisms that grow on Corytophanes
• Sasa and Monrós 2000: Corytophanes diet

3. Herons:

• Kushlan 1976: Heron feeding behaviour
• Ruxton and Hansell 2010: Heron bait fishing
• Dinets et al. 2013: Crocodilian tool use

4. Dung Beetles

• Krell et al. 2003: Dung beetle guilds
• Chin and Gill 1996: Prehistoric dung beetles
• Dacke et al. 2013: Dung beetles and the Milky Way

5. Painted Grasshoppers:

• Berenbaum and Miliczky 1984: aposematic colours and milkweed feeding invertebrates

6. Bee-eaters:

• Sridhar and Karanth 1993: helping behaviour in bee-eaters in Bangalore
• Hegner and Emlen 1987: territorial behaviour in Kenyan bee-eaters
• Fry 1972: the social organization of bee-eaters

7. Dragonflies:

• Combes et al. 2012

8. Jirds:

• Shenbrot et al. 2002: climatic conditions in rodent burrows
• Zhang et al. 2003: burrowing rodents as ecosystem engineers

9. Bagworms:

• Rhainds et al. 2002: bagworm dispersal
• Ghent 1999: patterns of bagworm ballooning
• Gross and Fritz 1982: sex differences in bagworms
• Grapputo et al. 2005: the evolution of asexual reproduction in bagworms

10. Bulbuls:

• Williams and Giddings 1984: range expansions of bulbuls in Hawaii

11. Cicadas:

• Anything you may want to know about cicada endothermy you will find here