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Andreas Fischer's (Gries-lab) article 'Know your foe: synanthropic spiders are deterred by semiochemicals of European fire ants' that was just published in Royal Society Open Science describes that chemical deposits of European fire ants are deterrent to various urban spider species.

The article has drawn significant media attention. Please see some links below. 

Science News


New Scientist


National Geographic en espanol (they plan to do another piece just on spiders, based on our interview)

The Telegraph

msn

Le Journal de Montr茅al

Science Times

phys.org