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Web-Building Spiders We start this section on web-building spiders with a very interesting group of araneid spiders that have lost the ability to build full orb webs - the bolas spiders, which, instead of a web construct, they use a single thread as a lasso to catch moths attracted by the pheromones emitted by the spider [[29]]. This, combined with observational data from Southern Spain on web sizes in different seasons, suggests that the tent-web spider could potentially be a successful biological control agent of the tomato leafminer in the tomato planting and growing season assuming that high parasitic wasp infection of spider eggs can be controlled [[26]]. Basic Research on Spider Ecology and Behaviour Spider foraging strategies, and thus, to some extent, most aspects of their ecology and behaviour, can be split into either active roaming spiders that do not build a web (cursorial spiders) or sit-and-wait web-building spiders. Spiders are versatile and ubiquitous generalist predators that can be found in all terrestrial ecosystems except for Antarctica. [Extracted from the article]