Some spiders might be even more devious predators than we realized.
Its an amazing finding, but scientists still arent sure exactly how the spiders pull off this trick.
The teams findings werepublishedon August 19 in the journalCurrent Biology.
An A. ventricosus spider with three ensnared male fireflies.© Xinhua Fu
Once the arachnids noticed, they bit the insects repeatedly.
The researchers hypothesized that the spiders were clued in by watching the fireflies light signals.
To test this specific hypothesis, the team blackened out the lanterns of some fireflies using ink.
Second, the evolutionary origins of the prey-manipulation system inA.
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