Exploitation of environmental noise by an araneophagic assassin bug

@article{Wignall2011ExploitationOE,
  title={Exploitation of environmental noise by an araneophagic assassin bug},
  author={Anne E. Wignall and Robert R. Jackson and R. Stimson Wilcox and Phillip W Taylor},
  journal={Animal Behaviour},
  year={2011},
  volume={82},
  pages={1037-1042}
}
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