another fav spider
Aug 1, 2020 10:52:02 #
from spiderbytes "Rhomphaea, unlike most of their relatives, specialize on hunting other spiders. They do sometimes build their own rudimentary webs from just a few silk lines, but they also enter the webs of other spiders and use aggressive mimicry to hunt their owners. Rhomphaea will pluck the web and produce vibrations that lure the resident spider out to investigate what they perceive to be prey caught in the web. The web-building hunter then becomes the hunted, tricked into the approaching the dangerous intruder. Rhomphaea fictilium have been reported to prey on other theridiids, orb-weavers (araneids), sheet-weavers (linyphiids) and others" i didnt shoot yesterday until late afternoon,luckly i only have to go out the back door to find lots of targets
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Very interesting! This is in the group of cobweb weaving spiders. We have a species called the pirate spider which does the same thing, but its in the orb weaving group (though it does not make orb webs). I forgot about the 'aggressive mimicry' term. And that spiderbytes web site is way neat-o! 👍👍👍👍!
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