Abstract
-Female crab spiders Misumena vatia built their nests close (< 1 m) to favorable spiderling hunting sites (goldenrod Solidago spp.) more frequently than predicted by chance, but fewer than half of them used such sites. A tendency to build close to spiderling hunting sites was not correlated with maternal size, and no consistent relationship occurred between maternal size and distance traveled between the last hunting site and the nest site. Thus, mobility does not appear to influence nest placement. Success as a forager, a factor closely related to the size attained by a female prior to laying, does not appear to affect the placement of nests, in spite of the importance of nest placement in facilitating spiderling foraging.
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