@article {197,
	title = {Maternal food-supply activity and its regulation in Coelotes terrestris (Araneae, Agelenidae)},
	journal = {Behaviour},
	volume = {107},
	year = {1988},
	note = {ZOOR12500055712},
	month = {1988},
	pages = {278-296},
	abstract = {The funnel-web spider Coelotes terrestris (Agelenidae) displays extended maternal care, especially characterized by a progressive provisioning of the young during a four-eight week gregarious phase. As they grow up, the spiderlings are provided with a increasing amount of prey, which is captured on the web and carried by the mother into the silk tube that represents the nest. This paper is aimed to determine the mechanism that could regulate, throughout the gregarious phase, this food-supply activity. Eleven females were observed, at different times, from one week before egg-laying till one week after the progeny{\textquoteright}s dispersal. Females{\textquoteright} feeding behaviour noticeably changed from the young{\textquoteright}s emergence onwards. In particular, the prey was less and less handled and the overall time during which the mother kept her prey for herself.sbd.Prey Handling Time (PHT).sbd.steadily decreased. Meanwhile, the spiderlings reacted more and more rapidly to the mother{\textquoteright}s prey catching and carrying, and they stimulated her more and more actively. The mother{\textquoteright}s prey-supply behaviour was experimentally shown to be modifiable withing a short delay. Separating the mother from her brood made her shift her "Prey Handling Time" from a few minutes to more than two hours (i.e. about the level of the pre-emergence PHT). Conversely, reuniting the mother with her brood lead to an equivalent decrease of the PHT. This phenomenon was obtained at four different periods during the gregarious phase. The present study shows that, in this invertebrates species, the maternal provisioning activity is essentially regulated by exogenous factors: i.e. stimulations (that qualitatively and quantitatively variate in the course of time) emanating from the developing progeny.},
	keywords = {activity, Coelotes terrestris (Araneae)., Coelotes terrestris [Feeding behaviour / / Maternal provisioning, Nutrition, Parental care, regulatory mechanism] [Care of young / / ]., Reproduction, Reproductive behaviour},
	isbn = {0005-7959},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://ZOOREC:ZOOR12500055712},
	author = {Gundermann, J. L. and Horel, A. and Krafft, B.}
}
@article {198,
	title = {Mother-offspring food transfer in Coelotes terrestris (Araneae, Agelenidae)},
	journal = {Journal of Arachnology},
	volume = {19},
	year = {1991},
	note = {ZOOR12800017224},
	month = {1991},
	pages = {97-101},
	abstract = {Three different modes of maternal food supply have been reported in the subsocial agelenid species Coelotes terrestris: prey provisioning, consumption of the mother{\textquoteright}s body, and regurgitation of nutritive fluids. Although the first two modes are well documented, the latter is not fully assessed. By comparing-in the absence of any prey-the weight variations in spiderlings either left with their mothers or isolated, and by simultaneously comparing the weight variations of mothers, either isolated or left within the group of spiderlings, it was possible to see evidence of a significant and long-lasting food transfer from the mother to her progeny. This food transfer probably explains the high level of survivorship and reduction of cannibalism showed by broods left with their mothers. Close observation provided no direct evidence of mouth to mouth transfer. Rather, the food transfer appears to involve the production and emission of miniature eggs by the mother when in presence of spiderlings, a phenomenon which to date seems not to have been noted among spiders.},
	keywords = {[Egg laying / / ] [Parental care / / Food transfer to offspring, \& apart, among young, and development, Biometrics, Coelotes terrestris (Araneae)., Coelotes terrestris [Weight / / Changes in mother \& young kept together, Development, Ecology, evidence for food transfer] [Feeding behaviour / / Cannibalism, evidence from weight changes \& observations] [Growth / / Young kept, influence of maternal presence \& food supply] [Egg / /, Life cycle, Nutrition, observations \& first report for Araneae], Population dynamics, Reproduction, Reproductive behaviour, Trophic eggs for feeding young, with \& apart from mother] [Survival / / ].},
	isbn = {0161-8202},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://ZOOREC:ZOOR12800017224},
	author = {Gundermann, J. L. and Horel, A. and Roland, C.}
}
@article {19,
	title = {Onset and maintenance of maternal prey-supply activity in the spider Coelotes terrestris (Araneae, Agelenidae)},
	journal = {Behaviour},
	volume = {120},
	year = {1992},
	note = {ZOOR12900005003},
	month = {1992},
	pages = {1-10},
	keywords = {Coelotes terrestris (Araneae)., Coelotes terrestris [Parental care / / Maternal prey supply activity, onset \& maintenance]., Reproduction, Reproductive behaviour},
	isbn = {0005-7959},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://ZOOREC:ZOOR12900005003},
	author = {Assi Bessekon, D. and Horel, A. and Gundermann, J. L.}
}
