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The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America. [1] It is a small spider , about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, that weaves a fairly complex and unique sheet web system consisting of an inverted dome shaped web, or "bowl," suspended above a horizontal sheet web, or "doily", hence its ...
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[2] [6] Other spiders in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae, including Celaenia species from Australia and Taczanowskia species from South America, also use chemical lures to attract moths, but they catch them with their front legs. [6] Bolas spiders will try and often succeed in catching any insect that is flying nearby.
Minuscule is a French live action and CGI TV series, produced by Futurikon and created by Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo. The TV series comes in the form of short segments – focusing mostly on a variety of insects – where their mundane, everyday lives take on a humorous turn.
[1] [2] It excludes films where the antagonists are inhuman insects or a human becomes an insect, such as The Adventures of André and Wally B., Them! or The Fly. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It also excludes documentary, scientific and educational films about insects, such as the Secrets of the Ant and Insect World (1960), [ 5 ] More than Honey (2012), and The ...
Thomisus spectabilis, also known as the white crab spider or Australian crab spider, is a small spider found in Australia and far east Asia. [1] The body length of the female is up to 10 mm, the male 6.2 mm. Including legs, the spider is around 3 cm across. [2] This spider is usually white, though sometimes may appear yellow.
The net-casting spider weaves a small net which it attaches to its front legs. It then lurks in wait for potential prey and when such prey arrives, lunges forward to wrap its victim in the net, bite and paralyze it. Hence, this spider expends less energy catching prey than a primitive hunter and also avoids the energy loss of weaving a large ...
The cribellate spiders were the first spiders to build specialized prey-catching webs, later evolving into groups that used the spinnerets solely to make webs, instead using silk threads dotted with droplets of a sticky liquid (like pearls on a necklace) to capture small arthropods, and a few large species even small bats and birds. Other ...