Adult male bolas spiders retain juvenile hunting tactics
@article{Yeargan1997AdultMB, title={Adult male bolas spiders retain juvenile hunting tactics}, author={K. V. Yeargan and L. Quate}, journal={Oecologia}, year={1997}, volume={112}, pages={572-576} }
Abstract Bolas spiders in the genus Mastophora exhibit extreme sexual size dimorphism. In temperate regions, the diminutive males become adults about 2 months before females mature. Late-instar and adult females attract certain male moths by aggressive chemical mimicry of those moth species' sex pheromones. While hunting, these larger female spiders hang from a horizontal silken line and capture moths by swinging a “bolas” (i.e., a sticky globule suspended on a thread) at the approaching moths… CONTINUE READING
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