Sentences with phrase «in jumping spiders»

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

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.

«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.

A study published online Oct. 13 in the journal Current Biology describes how researchers used metal microelectrodes in a jumping spider's poppy - seed - sized brain to show that auditory neurons can sense far - field sounds, at distances up to 3 meters, or about 600 spider body lengths.

Not exact matches

In general, the search engine program («spider» or «robot «-RRB- crawls the web for web pages, jumping from page to page by way of links on each page.

But there, hurtling over the second jump at high speed, Spider caught his arm on a gate, somersaulted onto the back of his neck in an explosion of snow and skis and fractured a vertebra in his back.

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

This sneaky jumping spider performs antics to fool predators in what is an unusual example of mimicry through behaviour, rather than appearance

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

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

So it proves with Caspar Henderson's beautifully conjured world of barely imagined beings — ranging from the amazing jumping spider to Venus's Girdle, an ancient comb jelly — out now in paperback.

In the Philippines, it lives on the same large waxy leaves as the jumping spider.

Nelson and Jackson therefore carried out experimental work at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines to look at the dynamics between a type of jumping spider (Phintella piatensis), the territorial weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) and a web - building predatory spitting spider (Scytodes sp).

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.

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

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

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 webIn 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 webin 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Biomechanics expert Andrew Martin and colleagues at the Institute for Technical Zoology and Bionics in Bremen, Germany, used a scanning electron microscope to look at the feet of a small jumping spider (Evarcha arcuata).

A newly discovered species of jumping spider has evolved bizarre paddle - shaped limbs to gauge females» interest in mating

The jumping spider Bagheera kiplingi — named in the 1800s after the panther in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book — is mostly a vegetarian.

For the jumping spider, it pays to live in a dangerous neighborhood.

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 SociobiologIn 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 Sociobiologin Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

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 reIn 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 rein 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.

A common zebra jumping spider is shot using multiple images that have been combined to remove the shallow depth of focus that would normally obscure viewing such small subjects in their entirety.»

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.

Nerve cells in the brain of a tiny jumping spider can pick up airborne sounds from at least three meters (almost 10 feet) away, reports Ronald Hoy.

He then informed me there was a large spider in residence and, true to form, I promptly jumped on the sofa and didn't go near the bedroom.

The directing siblings were very interested in Marvel's reboot of the Spider - Man franchise, I could see them jumping onboard for sequels.

Spider - Man fights bad guys; jumps around as an amazingly - poor - at - times CGI puppet; climbs the Washington Monument in a scene that reminds me of a dream Miles had on «Murphy Brown» about being a dolphin erupting from the tip; and tries to hold the Staten Island Ferry together in a scene that recalls - without - surpassing the runaway - train sequence from Spider - Man 2.

To get a sense of what's in store for those looking to take the plunge into the martian world, hit the jump to hear Spiders» motivations behind the ambitious downloadable title.

Consider the scene from «Spider - Man» in which Peter Parker scales walls and jumps from building to building joyously, or the one from «Iron Man» in which a reckless Tony Stark flies too far into the higher reaches of the atmosphere just to break that altitude record, or that scene from «Superman» in which the young Clark Kent races with a train.

It's made for those who scream when seeing cockroaches and spiders or jump up onto furniture when there's a mouse in the house.

With the morally uncertain «Monkey King 2» battling mountain - sized skeleton demons and flying witches, he's the closest thing that China has to a superhero (and likely one of the oldest in the world at that), Young jumps off such robust Marvel scores as «Spider - Man 3» and «Ghost Rider» for a series of hellzapoppin orchestral battles, as a battery of millennia - old Asian instruments like the erhu are skillfully blended with raging electric guitars, the score's numerous themes bursting with the honor of eternal warriors and choruses thundering from the heavens.

So when Peter senses danger in the trailer — by way of his newly minted spider sense — he literally jumps at the chance to help.

I'm more than eager to jump back in the 4C Spider and drive the wheels off it, but I'll seriously consider swapping the Alfa's seats out for a barcalounger and not telling anyone.

Title: Nefertiti, the spidernaut: the jumping spider who learned to hunt in space / By Darcy Pattison; Illustrated by Valeria Tisnés.

His new series ULTIMO (also published by VIZ Media), a historic collaboration with comics legend Stan Lee (co-creator of many iconic superheroes including Spider - Man ™, the Fantastic Four ™, and the X-Men ™), is currently being serialized in the U.S. in SHONEN JUMP.

Earth Defense Force 2025 does provide a good bit of variety in its enemies, though I couldn't help but see the jumping spider enemies as Tektites from The Legend of Zelda series.

Word came down the pike today that Best Buy has jumped on the holiday bandwagon and will be carrying their own exclusive Power Disc album for 2.0, in the form of a Spider - Man themed album for Marvel Super Heroes.

With a Men in Black 3 game announced earlier today, a fellow Sony Pictures outing has made the jump to home consoles, with Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider - Man reboot announced by Activision over at New York ComicCon.

The plasma and spazer beams aren't that impressive this time around, but the spring ball, which allows Samus to jump while in ball form, is pretty useful, and the spider ball, which allows Samus to cling to virtually all walls and ceilings, is just damn cool.

One of these variations are the Mimics, a smaller spider - like enemy type that can hide as many props in the environment to get the jump on you, and the way these react to you are amazing, if you notice where they are they will either attack you head on or rush away to look for a new hiding spot (sometimes hiding within larger groups for a well done ambush) leaving you to look for items that seem out of place.

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.

The Green Goblin is great fun to play in the game and offers a perfect reason to jump back into the Spider - Man playset to replay as the main villain.

The spider abilities sees Kirby trapping enemies in webs, as well as providing trampoline - like webs for his friends to jump on.