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Behavior and Bioadhesives: How Bolas Spiders, Mastophora hutchinsoni, Catch Moths

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The bolas spider Mastophora hutchinsoni creates a small glue droplet attached to a web, called a bolas, which it flicks at a moth flying nearby. When it makes contact with the moth, the glue droplet soaks into the moth’s scales and adheres the moth to the bolas and the spider holding...

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Autores principales: Diaz, Candido, Long, John H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9780859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36555076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13121166