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The Acroceridae are a small family of odd-looking flies. They have a hump-backed appearance with a strikingly small head, generally with a long proboscis for accessing nectar. They are rare and not widely known. The most frequently applied common names are small-headed flies or hunch-back flies. [2] Many are bee or wasp mimics.
The cartoon starts off with a devious spider (voiced by Jack Mercer) who holds many fly captives in the rooms of "The Cobweb Hotel" and sees a newly married couple of flies booking a room into the fake hotel. After they discover the trap, the female fly gets ensnared in one of the spider's webs, and the male fly fights with the spider being a ...
Adults are exceptionally large for damselflies, with wingspans as high as 19 cm (7.5 in.) reported for Megaloprepus [6] and body length up to 13 cm (5.1 in.) for Pseudostigma aberrans. [7] The pterostigma —a thickened, pigmented cell found on the leading edge of the wing in other odonates —is either missing or else modified into a ...
What they look like: Hobo spiders are tannish-brown and the top of the spider may look mottled, with darker and lighter spots, Potzler says. They look pretty hairy and have spiny hairs coming off ...
SC's top 5 largest (and harmless) spiders. ∎ Dark Fishing Spider: 15 to 26 mm. Despite their size, they are harmless and rarely bite. ∎ Carolina Wolf Spider: About 2.5 cm.
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If there is a fly within 15 cm of the front of the spider, the spider becomes alert. In the first stage, the legs and abdomen are shifted and straightened. The hind legs then become drawn in and the spider begins to slowly move towards the prey. Once the spider is 3–4 cm from its prey, it leaps and pierces the prey with its fangs.
The abdomen of adult females is large relative to the cephalothorax, partially covering it. In some species, the female's abdomen is comparatively smooth, while in others it has humps and tubercules. The females of some bolas spiders (e.g. Mastophora cornigera ) look remarkably like a bird dropping, thanks to their large, globular abdomen and ...