the funnel-web building spider, Agelenopsis aperta (Gertsch) (Araneae: Agelenidae) in desert habitats. The versatility shown by Agelenopsis in its food relations (Riechert 1973) suggests a need for reassessment of the importance of spiders as invertebrate predators. The following is a summary of some existing information and thoughts on spider predation placed with my ideas into the context of predator-prey models. Numerous agricultural reports on pest species discuss the potential of spiders to control certain insect populations. There is no consensus as to their
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Susan E. Riechert (1974) studied this question.
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