No, she wants to kill them and consume their nutrients, especially their defensive steroid lucibufagins, which provides protection against
predatory jumping spiders.
Not exact matches
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).
When researchers play a low - pitched tone similar to the drone of a
predatory wasp, a tiny
jumping spider freezes (red pointer appears).