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Spider

Started By antmaniac , Oct 17 2015 11:51 PM

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#1 Offline antmaniac - Posted October 17 2015 - 11:51 PM

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An interesting spider uses web/net to capture its prey.

#2 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 18 2015 - 3:18 AM

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Woah.

#3 Offline James C. Trager - Posted October 18 2015 - 5:12 AM

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Ogre-faced Spider, family Deinopidae
Here's a mostly accurate video from the Science Channel about them. Note, it is the anterior median eyes (not posterior median) that are greatly enlarged.
https://www.youtube....h?v=Bp6oGmaLHGY

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#4 Offline LC3 - Posted October 18 2015 - 11:38 AM

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It looks likes a cranefly and a spider had a baby.

#5 Offline dermy - Posted October 18 2015 - 2:09 PM

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Do they know when a Prey item is too big to catch [and thus don't use their "special web" ]? Or do they just go all over the place netting everything.

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#6 Offline antmaniac - Posted October 18 2015 - 4:18 PM

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Do they know when a Prey item is too big to catch [and thus don't use their "special web" ]? Or do they just go all over the place netting everything.

Well, good question. I actually roll some roly poly (pill bug) under the spider and funny enough, it tried to use the web to capture the bug but...failed due to the size of the bug.