Sentences with phrase «weaver spiders»

Orb - weaver spiders build webs to catch prey.

Jones studies social behavior in the orb weaver spiders that his undergraduate students collect near their East Tennessee State University campus.

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

The golden orb - weaver spider from Tanzania spins such strong webs that Tanzanian fishermen use them for fishing.

Not exact matches

And I am glad you are not into the spider smashing business, I get so upset when I think of garden orb weavers being killed, yeah I've walked through many a sticky web only to worry where the heck is the spider, but they are harmless and very very unlikely to bite you, they are scaredy cats!

-LSB-...] It was not long after my dive into the world of orb weavers that I started taking an even deeper interest in all 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.

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).

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

Others include species of orb weaver, especially those from the genus Celaenia, says spider expert Robert Whyte.

But the velvet spider genome, together with that of the orb weaver and the house spider, has exposed an unexpected variety of silk genes — «a lot more than we thought,» Coddington says.

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.

One of the orb weaver's silk genes is even expressed in the spider's venom gland.

Contrary to earlier studies, the analyses divided orb weavers, the many spider species that make the classic spiral webs and cobwebs, into two groupings and put them on very different branches of the tree.

Researchers have sequenced full genomes of three species — the golden orb - weaver, the African social velvet spider, and the common house spider — and have done more limited genetic and protein studies on many others.

They have also looked for the activity of similar genes in the silk glands and other tissues of cobweb - weaving spiders, a subset of orb weavers that build 3D webs instead of flat ones.

Orb weavers that produce fuzzy, sticky fibers called cribellate silk ended up in a part of the tree that includes many spiders that don't make webs at all, whereas orb weavers that make a viscid silk are on their own branch.

The spitting spiders (Scytodes) typically steer clear of weaver ants» nests to avoid being swarmed and eaten.

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

To test how the two spider species react to the presence of weaver ants, the team built transparent boxes complete with green - painted cardboard leaves.

silk A fine, strong, soft fiber spun by a range of animals, such as silkworms and many other caterpillars, weaver ants, caddis flies and spiders.

The missing sector orb weaver, however, is more of an indoors spider.

Two of the most common are the missing sector orb weaver (Zygiella x-notata) and the lace webbed spider (Amaurobius sp.).

Nephila clavipes spiders (Araneae: Nephilidae) keep track of captured prey counts: Testing for a sense of numerosity in an orb - weaver.

The legend of Arachne, the talented mortal weaver who was turned into a spider by the goddess Athena for daring to challenge her skill, further conjures mythic associations of female envy and jealousy.

Spider Couple is one of Bourgeois's famous series inspired by her mother, a weaver and «spinner of yarns».

For Louise Bourgeois, her mother was a weaver, strong, protective and nurturing, just like a spider.

Like a spider, my mother was a weaver.

It depicts a spider, which for the artist represents her mother, who was a weaver and very clever, like spiders.

Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louises own mother was a weaver of tapestries.

As usual the connection she makes with her family is unquestionable and somehow too perfect, «Like a spider» she once said, «my mother was a weaver.»

Like a spider, my mother was a weaver... Like spiders, my mother was very clever.

The form and aesthetics are inspired by natural habitats — cocoons, bee hives, spiders nests and weaver birds nests.