Sentences with phrase «of jumping spiders»

Or maybe one of those jumping spiders.

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 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.

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

The spider attaches a line of silk to the tree branch she is standing on, by the side of a river, and bungee - jumps into space.

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).

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.

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.

«When we played 90 Hz, 80 percent of the spiders froze» for up to a second, before they turned and jumped, said Menda.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

«The birds would see a spider model with red markings and get startled and jump back, like «Oh no man, get me out of here,»» Brandley said.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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.»

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

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.

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.

Jumping spiders have brains about the size of poppy seeds.

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

I've been doing the whole DVD each time, and love the way it blends yoga with elements of a trademark Zuzka workout (burpees, jump lunges, spider pushups, etc.).

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

One that stands out involves Susan looking for an escaped bug under a table, and, as she gets up, she passes a poster of a giant spider, framed so that it looks like it's dropped down behind her — despite that description, it's a subtle moment that isn't even played as a jump scare, but is effective nonetheless and indicative of a dark sense of humour.

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.

Comic books have made immensely successful jumps to the big screen with the releases of both «X-Men» and «Spider - Man» the past few years.

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.