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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 spider climbs to a high point and takes a stance with its abdomen to the sky, releasing fine silk threads from its spinneret until it becomes aloft. Journeys achieved vary from a few metres to hundreds of kilometres. Even atmospheric samples collected from balloons at five kilometres altitude and ships mid-ocean have reported spider landings.
Abracadabrella elegans (Elegant Fly Mimic) from Grafton NSW an Australian Jumping Spider. Male, body length 3.8 mm Composite picture showing spider from above and a view of the eyes from rear Abracadabrella elegans (Elegant Fly Mimic) from Townsville QLD an Australian Jumping Spider.
What they look like: It’s a “very ordinary-looking” brown spider, Potzler says. It can be confused with the brown recluse, but grass spiders have long spinnerets (finger-like appendages at ...
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The more than 300-million-year-old fossilized hell-spawn remains of the spider-like creature were found preserved in ironstone in central France. A prehistoric spider creature was just found ...
To catch a spider they first fly backward, then quickly fly forward to grab it in their forelegs. Then they back away again and perch to consume the spider, removing the legs before eating the body. Though this careful forward-and-back approach minimizes contact with the web, they often preen after eating to remove any strands that do adhere to ...
The females of some bolas spiders (e.g. Mastophora cornigera) look remarkably like a bird dropping, thanks to their large, globular abdomen and brownish cephalothorax. This is a form of defensive mimicry as the animals that prey on spiders pay little attention to bird droppings, which enables the spiders to rest unnoticed during the day in ...