Search
Items tagged with: Spider
#book
Autumn Winds: Encounters with a World in Transition by Craig Newberger
While images of spiders have begun showing up on windowpanes and pumpkins, our native spiders are busy building webs, feasting on insects and ballooning into the air. Though among the most underappreciated animals on the planet, spiders are fascinating in their abilities and adaptations. Some can jump twenty times their own body length. Others can sail through the air on a silken thread. Most spiders are harmless to humans while providing valuable ecological services controlling insect pests and pollinating plants. Learn more about the remarkable adaptations of spiders in Autumn Winds: Encounters with a World in Transition available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Spiders Are Somehow Hacking Fireflies to Lure More Victims
#science #firefly #research #spider #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2
Spiders Are Somehow Hacking Fireflies To Lure More Victims
What happens when an unfortunate bug ends up in a spider’s web? It gets bitten and wrapped in silk, and becomes a meal. But if the web belongs to an orb-weaver and the bug is a male firefly, …Hackaday
