SpiderSpotter | SPOTTERON is an education app developed by SPOTTERON.
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SpiderSpotter | SPOTTERON has been downloaded 11 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 40 times.
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App Information
SpiderSpotter | SPOTTERON is FREE to download. The APK download size is 35.13 MB. The latest version available is 4.2.0. The last update was on October 16, 2025.
Technical Requirements
SpiderSpotter | SPOTTERON requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2019.
Description
Have you ever walked around the city in the summer? Then you know it can get very hot because of all the asphalt and the concrete that retains the heat! Staying cool in this heat is not only a problem for humans, but also for animals. But this is just one of the challenges they face. The city is a completely new environment that they must be able to adapt to. Cities can therefore be seen as "living laboratories" where evolution takes place in real time! In the project we want to investigate through Citizen Science how spiders can adapt to city life.
We focus on two important spider traits: color and webs. Spider color: Much like a white car heats up less in the sun compared to a black car, so does a lighter spider heat up less compared to a dark spider. Therefore we expect city spiders to evolve a more lighter color as this protects them from overheating in an already hot city.
Spider webs: As the main tool for prey capture, webs are crucial for spider survival. Due to a lower supply of prey in cities, we expect to see webs with a smaller mesh size that are more efficient in capturing prey.
Why study adaptations to city living in spiders? Not only do we get crucial information about how animals can adapt to climate change, studying spiders can also be very useful for us humans! We can use spider color as a natural thermometer and thus better determine how quickly our environment heats up. And who knows, by examining in detail how a spider uses color to stay cool, we might even find new ways of staying cool in the city ourselves.
Read more about SpiderSpotter project on www.spiderspotter.com! The project runs on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform.
Recent changes: * Updated Media Upload System * Bug fixes and improvements
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This is really neat and a cool way to connect with other people who love spiders. I'd give it 5 stars, but commenting on photos is really buggy, and you can't go back and edit your comment to fix it. It has a tendency to want to randomly delete what you text and appear to under space randomly. I thought that was what it did and just cut off the top part of what I had said, but it deleted it, so when I entered it, it made no sense. Since I can't edit it or delete it, I just look like a goof.
★★★★★Patricia Hinkler· Feb 22, 2022
I’m a spider lover of ones that are not poisonous
★★★★★Patricia Hinkler· Jun 6, 2024
I collect spiders for a pet and take care of them by feeding them other insects
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