Sentence examples for prey spiders from inspiring English sources
Our results show that in the absence of nutrient and vibratory cues from profitable prey, spiders alter their web architecture to build webs better able to capture the less profitable prey at a cost of more material investment, greater web visibility and reduced vibratory signal clarity.
Populations from Los Baños and from Sagada, both in the Philippines, have slightly different hunting tactics, and Los Baños has some very dangerous prey spiders.
In Queensland, P. fimbriata is reluctant to jump into the webs of prey spiders, while other Portia species do this at any opportunity.
All types of prey spiders occasionally counter-attack, but all Portia species have very good defences, starting with especially tough skin.
The effect inhibits aggressive mimicry against a prey spider even if the prey spider is visible, and also if the prey is inhabiting any part of a web.
If a stabbed prey spider retreats into the nest, P. fimbriata in Queensland never enters the nest, but waits for the prey to move out, and then P. fimbriata kills it.
One genus of jumping spiders, Portia fimbriata will spend countless hours plucking other spiders' webs in an intricate dance to mimic prey; the target spider then comes out expecting dinner but instead becomes dinner itself.
These include primitive and modern insects such as bristletails, firebrats, springtails, cockroaches and crickets; indeed, most prey-spider interactions observed today are the same as they were some 400 million years ago [29], [30].
The goldcrest takes a wide variety of prey, especially spiders, caterpillars, bugs, springtails and flies.
Individual cells contain a mud dauber egg and paralyzed prey (typically spiders), which serves as food for the developing larvae [32].
In virtual-prey tests, spiders made a 'virtual-prey choice' by stalking one of two animated 3D drawings of mosquitoes and the only variable by which the two prey differed was posture (Anopheles: abdomen tilted up; Culex: abdomen horizontal).
