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Arachnids are animals that have:
An Arachnologist is a scientist who studies and works specifically with
the different types or arachnids. Arachnids
include spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks mites etc.
Arachnids are NOT insects.
An Arachnologist focusses on the scientific study of all of the
arachnids to promote the knowledge on each species.
Arachnologists are primarily responsible for classifying
arachnids and studying aspects of their biology. In the popular
imagination they are sometimes referred to as 'spider experts'.
Disciplines within arachnology include naming species and determining
their evolutionary relationships to one another (taxonomy and
systematics), studying how they interact with other members of their
species and/or their environment (behavioural ecology), or how they are
distributed in different regions and habitats (faunistics).
Other arachnologists perform research on the anatomy or physiology of
arachnids, including the venom of spiders and scorpions. Others study
the impact of spiders in agricultural ecosystems and whether they can be
used as biological control agents.
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