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Spiders Are Trapping Fireflies in Their Webs and Using Their Glow to Lure Fresh Prey
At night in the forests of East Asia, fireflies glow to attract mates. But sometimes their signals are hijacked. Sheet web ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nocturnal spiders have been filmed capturing fireflies and keeping them in their webs to attract ...
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Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs
The findings, published Thursday (Aug. 28) in the Journal of Animal Ecology, revealed the LED webs attracted three times more prey than the empty webs. When just looking at the number of fireflies ...
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