Fiona Cross

Fiona Ruth Cross is a New Zealand arachnologist. She did both her MSc and PhD theses at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Fiona Ruth Cross
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury
ThesisAttentional processes in mosquito-eating jumping spiders: search images and cross-modality priming (2009)
WebsiteCanterbury University page

Cross is best known for detecting food preference in East African Evarcha culicivora spiders for female Anopheles mosquitos fed recently on mammalian blood.[1][2][3]

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