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A Study of Spiders (Araneae) on Maple Trees (Acer Spp.) [PDF]
, 2017 We began this study to determine whether spider species occur randomly on maple species or whether they are selective in picking either their host species or their position on that host.
Dillery, Dean G., Uetz, George W.
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Attack on Titan: a record of predation on the Chinese reddish mantis Hierodula chinensis (Mantodea, Mantidae) by the orb-web weaving spider Gibbaranea abscissa (Araneae, Araneidae) [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera ResearchPrey–predator interaction is a phenomenon important to our understanding of community dynamics. Mantises and web-weaving spiders are predators that belong to the same guild, and they can be each other’s predator and prey.
Kazuhisa Yamasaki, Yuki G. Baba
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Bat predation by spiders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In this paper more than 50 incidences of bats being captured by spiders are reviewed. Bat-catching spiders have been reported from virtually every continent with the exception of Antarctica (≈ 90% of the incidences occurring in the warmer areas of the ...
Martin Nyffeler, Mirjam Knörnschild
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Behavior and Bioadhesives: How Bolas Spiders, Mastophora hutchinsoni, Catch Moths
Insects, 2022 Spiders use various combinations of silks, adhesives, and behaviors to ensnare and trap prey. A common but difficult to catch prey in most spider habitats are moths.
Candido Diaz, John H. Long
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Second-order Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Spider Silk [PDF]
, 2017 Asymmetric $\rm \beta$-sheet protein structures in spider silk should induce nonlinear optical interaction such as second harmonic generation (SHG) which is experimentally observed for a radial line and dragline spider silk by using an imaging ...
Hien, Khuat Thi Thu +3 more
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Diversity and properties of key spider silks and webs [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2015 Spider silks are natural materials whose diversity surpasses other known silks and man-made polymers. This review covers exciting aspects of the diversity of spider silks and focuses on orb web silks.
Beth Mortimer and Fritz Vollrath
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Entomological Communications, 2021 Eriostethus rufus (Uchida, 1932) is a polysphinctine ectoparasitoid of araneid spiders (Neoscona spp.) and is endemic to Japan. An individual was collected in Yamagata Prefecture (38º46' N), northern Japan, the northernmost record of the species and also
Keizo Takasuka
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Consequences of electrical conductivity in an orb spider's capture web
Naturwissenschaften, 2013 The glue-coated and wet capture spiral of the orb web of the garden cross spider Araneus diadematus is suspended between the dry silk radial and web frame threads. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that the capture spiral is electrically conductive because of necks of liquid connecting the droplets even if the thread is stretched. We examine how this
Fritz Vollrath, Donald Edmonds
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Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2017 Polysphinctine wasps of the genus Hymenoepimecis act as koinobiont ectoparasitoids of orb-weaver spiders. Hymenoepimecis japi is already known to parasitize the tetragnathid spider Leucauge roseosignata.
Yuri F. Messas +2 more
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Spiders in a hostile world (Arachnoidea, Araneae) [PDF]
, 2011 Spiders are powerful predators, but the threats confronting them are numerous. A survey is presented of the many different arthropods which waylay spiders in various ways. Some food-specialists among spiders feed exclusively on spiders.
Helsdingen, Peter J. van
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