[2] She is also known for her "biology in a box" teaching materials, used by hundreds of thousands of elementary and secondary school students in Tennessee.
[5] Her interest was further piqued after she observed a large population of spiders exhibiting territorial behaviors that only vertebrates were thought to be capable of at the time.
[9] Research that she conducted based on this interest would lead to her to publish her "seminal work","Games Spiders Play," in 1978.
[12]: 20–24 The genus was, in fact, the topic of "Games Spiders Play," a landmark contribution by Riechert to behavioral arachnology.
[15] In 2008, Riechert was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "for distinguished contributions to the field of behavior and ecology".
[19] Jonathan Pruitt achieved a PhD with Riechert as his advisor and was able to attain prestigious positions in academia despite his youth thanks to his acclaimed publications.