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  1. Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae)

    Article • Journal of Economic Entomology, October 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  2. Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort

    Article • Journal of Medical Entomology, October 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  3. Quantifying How Natural History Traits Contribute to Bias in Community Science Engagement: A Case Study Using Orbweaver Spiders

    Article • Citizen Science Theory and Practice, April 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  4. Veni, vidi, vici? Future spread and ecological impacts of a rapidly expanding invasive predator population

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  5. Veni, vidi, vici? Future spread and ecological impacts of a rapidly-expanding invasive predator population

    Article • July 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  6. The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata) in the southeastern U.S.: an opportunity for research and a call for reasonable journalism

    Article • Biological Invasions, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  7. Endosymbiotic Rickettsiella causes cytoplasmic incompatibility in a spider host

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  8. Selectivity underlies the dissociation between seasonal prey availability and prey consumption in a generalist predator

    Article • Molecular Ecology, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  9. Laboratory and Field Investigation of Biological Control for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae))

    Article • Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, October 2017, Kansas Entomological Society

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  10. Spring Forward: molecular detection of early season predation in agroecosystems

    Article • Food Webs, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  11. Functional value of elytra under various stresses in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  12. Linking the green and brown worlds through nonconsumptive predator effects

    Article • Oikos, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  13. The wolf spider Pardosa milvina detects predator threat level using only vibratory cues

    Article • Behaviour, February 2016, Brill

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  14. Information from familiar and related conspecifics affects foraging in a solitary wolf spider

    Article • Oecologia, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  15. Predator cues have contrasting effects on lifespan of Pardosa milvina (Araneae: Lycosidae)

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, April 2015, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  16. Predicting Predatory Outcomes in the Context of Carryover Effects: Interactions between Juvenile Frogs and Spider Predators

    Article • Ethology, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  17. Nonconsumptive Predator-Prey Interactions: Sensitivity of the Detritivore Sinella curviseta (Collembola: Entomobryidae) to Cues of Predation Risk From the Spider Pardosa milvina (Araneae: Lycosidae)

    Article • Environmental Entomology, March 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  18. The importance of intraguild predation in predicting emergent multiple predator effects

    Article • Ecology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  19. Fear of predation alters soil carbon dioxide flux and nitrogen content

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  20. Sex-Specific Response ofPardosa milvina(Araneae: Lycosidae) to Experience with a Chemotactile Predation Cue

    Article • Ethology, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  21. Mate Discrimination in Invasive Whitefly Species

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  22. Plasticity in mating behaviour drives asymmetric reproductive interference in whiteflies

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin

  23. Function of the flexible periostracal hairs inTrichotropis cancellata(Mollusca, Gastropoda)

    Article • Invertebrate Biology, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Michael I Sitvarin