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Wolf spiders are resorting to CANNIBALISM as warming Arctic causes population to rise

Researchers working in Alaska observed wolf spiders eating juvenile spiders due to a warming Arctic that is making them grow larger and produce more offspring, resulting in less resources.




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This Wasp Mind-Controls Spiders While Eating Them Alive

Scientists don't know exactly how the larva of the Reclinervellus nielseni wasp mind-controls spiders into building a special web to protect it but they do know that they eat their hosts and steal their webs.




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Jumping Spiders Jump Around, Jump Up, Jump Up, and Get Down

Meet the little spider that goes about life a little differently, in the sense that it actively stalks the hell out of its prey.




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Mimicking nonstick spiders

Inspired by spider legs, researchers make nanoscopic structures that don't get caught up in structural stickiness




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Kin recognition in the social spiders Anelosimus sp. in Monteverde, Costa Rica




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Sex, size and behavior in wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidea)




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New cave-dwelling armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Southwest China




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The effect of prey danger level on the feeding behavior of Orchard spiders, Leucauge sp.




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Vertical stratification of web-building spiders in strangler fig trees?