Sentences with phrase «finds jumping spiders»

Not exact matches

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

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.

However, the researchers found that a spitting spider does not come near a jumping spider when the latter positions its own nest near that of weaver ants.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm sure there is a way to position that jump perfectly where I pogo around the spikes and jump on the spider, but I also know that I can just walk across the spikes, take a little damage, and find an ice cream cone to heal my health in the next screen or two over.

One day I might find out, but for now I'd just be content with not jumping head first into a pile of spikes upon seeing a giant spider.