Sentences with phrase «jumping spider evarcha»

Yong explains that the jumping spider's eyes are built like Galilean telescopes.

The eyes of the wonderfully wacky jumping spider are like Galilean telescopes and can see everything from laser lights to the moon.

Start with this eye - to - eye stare down with an adult male Paraphidippus aurantius jumping spider.

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.

A personal favorite spider of mine is the delightful little jumping spider.

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

Upset me too, because being a huge GITS fan, I thought the Tachikoma's jumping spider movement was implemented quite nicely.

Airborne acoustic perception by a jumping spider.

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.

When researchers play a low - pitched tone similar to the drone of a predatory wasp, a tiny jumping spider freezes (red pointer appears).

Amber Harris, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brown University, tells the story of jumping spider courtship.

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.»

«This helps the jumping spider survive because they can make more informed choices about what to eat.

The jumping spider Evarcha culicivora hunts mosquitoes, preferably those engorged with human blood.

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

The scientists speculated that the ants serve as the jumping spider's home security against the spitting spider, another one of its predators.

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

The team believes the jumping spider's tightly woven nest, complete with protective door flaps, guards the spider from ant assaults while the spitting spider's loosely constructed nest leaves it open for attack.

If you're a male jumping spider, you might first make sure she wants to play.

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

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).

You'd probably never notice a jumping spider across your living room, but it would surely notice you.

It's a jumping spider that impersonates ants.

He points to the Mars Rover as an example of using optics that were inspired by jumping spider vision.

However, it's not yet plain sailing for the jumping spider, as it is also a favorite snack of its savior, the weaver ant.

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).

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

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.

It turned out 90 Hz is near the same frequency as wing beats of parasitic wasps, the jumping spider's biggest enemies, which provision their nests with jumping spiders for their young to feed on.

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.

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.

Menda developed the technique for recording the jumping spider's neural activity.

«Timid jumping spider uses ant as bodyguard.»

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

Still, the photographer did come face to face with the jumping spider (Aelurillus cristatopalpus), many a rugged species of ant — including the nutcracker (Pheidole capensis)-- and much lush and colourful plant life, including this Alice sundew (Drosera aliciae).

The East African jumping spider Evarcha culicivora evolved to feed preferentially on female mosquitoes that have recently had a blood meal, which it can identify by both sight and odor.

Not only do jumping spiders have eight eyes positioned to create nearly 360 - degree vision, but some species can detect ultraviolet radiation, which facilitates mating.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

«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.

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