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Any fast moving object (i.e. bee, dragonfly, leaf, etc.) that enters a territory will be quickly chased. The chase allows the male bee to determine if a female is unmated, or if an enemy male is in his territory. If it is a male bee, the territory owner will chase it out, but not beyond the boundary of the territory.
This species was formerly called Nephila plumipes. As with other spiders from the genus Nephila, these spiders have a distinct golden web. The Trichonephila plumipes benefits from highly urbanized places due to more available food, warmer temperatures, and fewer predators. This species is commonly found in urban and natural landscapes. [3]
Herennia multipuncta, commonly known as the spotted coin spider, [1] is a species of spider in the family Nephilidae native to Asia. [2] It exhibits sexual dimorphism , the female being much larger than the male.
Slowly approaching the female from behind, the male traces the female's path until he reaches the female's hind legs. For the actual mating stage, both the male and the female release draglines. The female hangs freely from her dragline, while the male uses his dragline to reach the female. The male nursery web spider then rotates the female ...
Male is smaller than female. Male spins a web around the female's web, which is known as a companion web. After the mating, as in other common spiders, female kill the male. Female lay eggs on the companion web and wrap them up into a sac. Spiderlings eat each other in the sac until the strongest spiderling break the sac wall. [3]
Female-biased broods can also occur in both solitary and eusocial nests, but that is less common. [4] In this and other eusocial species, workers are mostly sterile and slightly smaller than their mothers. Augochlorella aurata tends to be solitary at high altitudes and latitudes. It's also more often solitary in environments where the growing ...
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Females can reach a body length of 22 mm, males up to 15 mm. This species is much darker than others of the same genus. While subadult spiders have a greyish opisthosoma with a marking similar to Segestria senoculata, adults are of a uniform black, sometimes with a green iridescent shine, especially on the chelicerae, [2] which reflect with a striking green.