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Some of you probably aren't fans of spiders, but it turns out our eight-legged friends aren't the biggest fans of us either - well at least some of the noise we make. Their webs, which you might ...
Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its ...
Spiders are known to learn about predators, prey, potential mates, and their overall environment from vibrations carried by their webs. Funnel-weaving spiders in particular connect their webs to ...
The new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, shows the webs of funnel-weaving spiders transmit vibrations differently in response to increased local noise. Spiders ...
A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...
Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species sports remains of prey as camouflage while it stalks spider webs for trapped bugs, researchers report in the April 25 Science. The ...
There it resides exclusively on cobwebs spun by spiders in logs and rock cavities. As the caterpillars skulk about the webs, they scavenge dead and dying insects and other arthropods ensnared in ...
Spiders provoke diverse emotions ranging from fascination to fear, yet these remarkable arachnids contribute significantly to various ecosystems, primarily through their intricate web designs. Webs ...
The source code, executables and object libraries in this release are the same as previously available in SPIDER&Web v26.06. However the documentation, manuals, and examples have been updated and ...