Research at the Prairie

The mission and goals of the Ohio Spider Survey is to enhance the understanding of spiders in Ohio. Implementation of the mission can be obtained through promoting public education about spider biology and the important of spiders to healthy ecosystems; to conduct surveys of spiders throughout Ohio to determine the status and distribution of spider species in the state; to develop recourse materials, in a variety of media, or dissemination of information about spiders, including print media, Internet, newsletters, books and pamphlets; create and expand a database of spider records including those of voucher specimens, photographic records and visual reports from schools, museums and private collections.