Sentences with phrase «jumping spiders»

And this could be a great tool for the arachnophobic that share their space with jumping spiders... just take the laser pointer and show your eight - legged guests the door.

Thanks to this tale of tweets and scientific inquiry, I learned something very important: Jumping spiders chase laser pointers.

Only three groups of animals have similar eyes: falcons, chameleons, and jumping spiders,» he writes.

We have a soft spot for jumping spiders, which are members of the largest family of spiders, Salticidae.

Update, Nov. 8, 6:43 a.m. * Mark Moffett, the photographer and adventurer best known as Doctor Bugs, sent a convincing note via Facebook asserting that the images on this fly's wings are jumping spiders, not ants.

Unlike ants, jumping spiders are visual and see their image in the wings, I've watched them dance to [an] image (thinking it a mate) rather than eat the prey.

Jumping spiders — Juvenile literature.

Or maybe one of those jumping spiders.

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An expert in jumping spiders, she works at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Jumping spiders have brains about the size of poppy seeds.

Her primary area of work is on the neural underpinning of visually - based behaviour in jumping spiders - but she also likes working on kea, the «clever» mountain parrots of New Zealand, due to her interest in mountains and skiing.

No, she wants to kill them and consume their nutrients, especially their defensive steroid lucibufagins, which provides protection against predatory jumping spiders.

Jumping spiders, voracious predators that eat pests around the world, can learn to distinguish the color red in their prey, thus allowing them to avoid toxicity in what they consume, according to new research led by a UF / IFAS scientist.

«Jumping spiders can learn to avoid red, toxic bugs; stay alive longer and eat agricultural pests.»

In a new study in the journal Behavioral Ecology, Taylor and her colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh found that Habronattus pyrrithrix, a species of jumping spiders, could be trained to prefer or avoid red.

Because jumping spiders consume most small agricultural pests, growers can avoid using some chemical treatments on their crops.

In tests where ants were smelled or seen, jumping spiders built far more web nests while spitting spiders built substantially fewer, the researchers report this week in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Researchers have discovered that wild Philippine jumping spiders (Phintella piantensis) erect their web - spun homes directly above nests of spider - eating weaver ants.

Turns out jumping spiders» auditory systems are much better at detecting noise than anyone thought.

Because the ants don't benefit from the close proximity of jumping spiders, it seems like the jumping spider gets its protection with no strings attached.

To estimate pouncing distance, jumping spiders compare crisp images of their prey to blurry ones

Male jumping spiders accompany their mating dance with a drum routine, sending vibrations through the ground to tempt a female.

© Rowan McGinleyMcGinley and Taylor utilised video playback techniques, which have previously been used with jumping spiders to study aspects of courtship and predation.

McGinley and Taylor turned to the Australian species Servaea incana to further test whether and how the behaviour of individual jumping spiders differs in response to their opponent's size.

However, in live fights, jumping spiders may have limited opportunity to show this skill.

However, jumping spiders seem not to pay attention to the size of their opponents in real fights.

Jumping spiders are known for their excellent vision and the elaborate body language they display when encountering other members of their species.

The third group, the Araneomorphae, includes 5500 jumping spiders, 4500 dwarf spiders, 2400 wolf spiders, and thousands of web spinners.

Peacock spiders and other jumping spiders use internal hydraulic pumps rather than leg muscles to leap 30 times their body length.

To find out which among these strategies — the wing pattern, jerky flight or peacock posture — is most critical for the mimicry to work, Shen - Horn Yen at the National Sun Yat - sen University in Taiwan first presented a Brenthia coronigera to jumping spiders in the lab.

Long Yu of Hubei University in China and his team exposed the spider to one of its predators — jumping spiders.

And instead of fluttering like other moths, the metalmark makes jerky leaps like the jumping spiders it mimics.

In a later study comparing almost 3400 active genes in 70 spider species, Bond's team found that mostly webless, ground - dwelling arachnids such as wolf spiders and jumping spiders diversified much more quickly than web weavers, perhaps because they were able to exploit a plethora of new opportunities once they no longer had to build and tend webs.

The arachnids are known for their brilliant eyesight, and a new study shows they have even greater sensory prowess than we thought: Jumping spiders can hear sounds even though they don't have ears — or even eardrums.

He and his colleagues knew that jumping spiders see ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths in sunlight, which people can't.

To find out, researchers designed their own computer - animated jumping spiders and had them confront live specimens in a lab (see video here).

So how do jumping spiders decide which other males they're willing to fight?

«Because we see these kinds of changes happening in jumping spiders when fed poor diets we might discover things that help us better understand macular degeneration and other human - centric problems,» says Morehouse and Buschbeck.

Prior research revealed how jumping spiders achieve better acuity out of a small visual system by moving the sensor around behind their lens.

The male jumping spiders have specialized scales that glow white and green when exposed to UV light; in female spiders, the palps (front appendages) appeared green under UV light.

This showed that the camouflage helps them repel more jumping spiders and attract more flies than the controls without the camouflage.

Also notable are two pairs of spots flanked by lines of metallic scales that Warren thinks mimic the eyes and legs of jumping spiders.

The downside to this plan is that jumping spiders are also a favorite snack of its very own saviors.

Therefore jumping spiders build dense ant - proof nests of an unusually tough and dense weave that are difficult for the insects to tear open.

While jumping spiders are known to have great vision, a new Cornell University study proves for the first time that spiders can hear at a distance.

The researchers found that jumping spiders choose nesting sites based on whether they can see active living ants, if they detect ant odor or can see mounts made from dead weaver ants.

Ants are the unlikely guardians of jumping spiders in their battle against aggressive spitting spiders.

Menda has since found evidence of hearing in five different spider species: jumping spiders, fishing spiders, wolf spiders, netcasting spiders and house spiders.

A weird echo of this meal - stealing strategy shows up in certain jumping spiders.