News tagged with spiders
Lost World Found in Papua New Guinea Volcano
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A BBC expedition exploring inside the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has discovered a lost world of dozens of weird new species and rare animals, including new frogs, ...
Moving in for the winter toxic brown recluse spiders pose danger
Dec 15, 2008 |
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As the cold weather creeps in, so do brown recluse spiders. True to their name, the brown recluse is a shy, reclusive spider looking for a warm home. Drawn to clutter, closets and complex storage environments, ...
Spider Payload on Space Station Becomes a Media Hit, Internet Music Video
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies delivered to the International Space Station by the space shuttle Endeavour Nov. 14 has generated ...
Spiders Who Eat Together, Stay Together
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Aug 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to work together and capture larger prey has allowed social spiders to stretch the laws of nature and reach enormous colony sizes, UBC zoologists have found.
Caught in a trap: bumblebees vs. robotic crab spiders
Biology /
Sep 04, 2008 |
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Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
New life histories emerge for invasive wasps, magnify ecological harm
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A switch from annual to multiyear colonies and a willingness to feed just about any prey to their young have allowed invasive yellowjacket wasps to disrupt native populations of insects and spiders on two ...
Water webs connect spiders, residents in Southwest
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so ...
'Ballooning' spiders grounded by infection
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Money spiders infected with Rickettsia bacteria are less likely to 'balloon' - that is, to use their silk as sails to catch gusts of wind and travel long distances. Researchers writing in the open access journal ...
