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Attenborough - Acherodes the "Thief Spider"

submitted by BoneyD

1 decade 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

This cunning little spider earns it's meal by undermining the web of a larger cousin. It will cut away the strands holding a captured insect, whilst suring up the weight with it's own web lines, thereby preventing the former owner from noticing the vibrations of the theft.

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QuadraPixel says...

Another great spider video

http://www.videosift.com/video/Effects-Of-Drugs-And-Alcohol-On-Spider-Webs

Acherodes the "little bitch spider" is more like it...

wow.

its probably very energy-taxing to construct and repair your trap all the time, so becoming adept at stealing a meal from a bigger neighbor seems like a reasonable solution.

Chaucer says...

I think the bigger spider was just to busy eating another fly to worry about that one.

Mgshadow says...

Spiders are cool

trig lil' cully. wery trig.

I wonder how many flies the camera crew tossed into the web until they got this shot?

amazing

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Replaced the embed with the same content, though it is missing Attenborough's wonderful commentary.

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