This file explains all variables in the in the datasets that accompany Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter- and intra-guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Saqib 1,2,3, Pingping Liang 4, Minsheng You 1,2,3,5 and Geoff M. Gurr 1,2,3,6 1 State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China 2 Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou 350002, China 3 Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China 4 College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China 5 Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management for Fujian-Taiwan Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou 350002, China 6 Graham Centre, Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia contact: Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Saqib sohaibsaqib@gmail.com ###Location Latitude-26.084466, Longitude-119.239207, Cangshan District, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China ###Sequence datasets Saqib_GC_rawdata.zip file Contains pair end sequence reads for each sample (e.g. S1_good.1 and S1_good.2) generated using the primer pairs mlCOlintF and HCO2198.