Chaiti Bhagawat

The state faces an increasing risk from rising temperatures, which are likely to impact the production of four major crops, soybean, cotton, wheat and gram, says a study by the Institute for Sustainable Communities Maharashtra is India’s second-largest state by population, and third-largest by area. More than half of the state’s 11.42 core population resides in rural areas. The climate is generally characterised by hot summers, monsoon and then mild winters.

Of the over 50,000 spider species identified, fewer than 0.1% display social behavior (Avilés & Guevara 2017; World Spider Catalog 2022). Sociality is hypothesized to evolve when the benefits of group-living outweigh the costs (Krause & Ruxton 2002).