Sentence examples for predatory spiders from inspiring English sources

What if this disorderly habitat bred a rich diversity of predatory spiders, like wolf spiders, orb weavers, crab spiders and jumping spiders?

Dr. Gardiner's hypothesis is that the less "disturbed" sites (the ungroomed vacancies) may support a broader range of beneficial predatory spiders.

Inspired by German romanticism, he infuses nature and science with the supernatural, balancing lurid special effects with a realistic view of disease-bearing rats and clinical macrophotography of predatory spiders and a Venus flytrap.

Powerful sprayers direct a stream of poison toward all parts of the tallest trees, killing directly not only the target organism — the bark beetle — but other insects, including pollinating species and predatory spiders and beetles.

In a field experiment, scientists raised red-legged grasshoppers (Melanoplus femurrubrum, image), a North American species, in the presence of predatory spiders (Pisaurina mira, the nursery web spider, inset).

Social predatory spiders need to defend their prey against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and larger colonies are more successful in this.

Tarantula hawks have not only worked out how to successfully attack a predatory spider but also to reserve the best meals for their most valuable offspring.

But it works well enough, according to a 2006 study in the journal PLoS One, that predatory jumping spiders almost always leave them alone — and sometimes run away screaming into the night.

Although EFN has been found to attract different species of insects and arthropods (e.g. parasitoids, predatory mites, spiders), in most cases it seems to be specially designed to attract ants, whose feeding ecology and behaviour fit very well the plant's defensive needs (Beattie 1985; Schoonhoven et al. 2005; Heil 2008).

For instance, the sugared-up bees returned to foraging faster after being momentarily caught and lightly squeezed in a trap that simulated a predatory crab spider's attack than did the control bees.

Of all predators collected in the field study, we measured highest Cry-protein levels in jumping and crab spiders, predatory flies and some predatory hemipterans.