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Compares courtship in the jumping spiders. Several species perform zig-zag dances while ‘Attulus saltator’ sways from side to side with front legs held upwards. ‘Hyctia nivoyi’ poses to show his...
Various types of web are shown capturing prey: the complete orb web with stabilimentum; the orb web with a telephone line traversing a missing segment. Tray web with superstructure; tray web with trip wires....
Many spiders do not make silken webs. The jumping spiders stalk their prey and pounce when within range. Others lie in wait - they are usually cryptically coloured. The water spider catches prey either on or...
'Segrestria florentina’ lives in a silken retreat from the mouth of which the spider lays down long non-sticky lines radiating out across the tree trunk or brickwork. The spider sits with six legs each...
The triangle spider, ‘Hyptiotes paradoxus’, makes a web of unique shape. Moreover, the spider bridges a gap on the apical line with its body so that it holds up and tensions the entire web. When courting...
'Theridion saxatile’ lives in a shelter above a super-structure which supports numerous lines running down to the ground. The vertical lines are only sticky where they touch the ground and the snare is...
The male ‘Pisaura’ courts by catching and wrapping a prey and then seeking a mature female. Having found one, he poses before her holding his offering. If the female is prepared to mate she seizes the...
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