'The web functions as an extension of the spider's exquisitely tuned sensory system, allowing her to very quickly detect and respond to prey coming into contact with her silk,' said said study co-author Catherine Scott.SFU graduate students Samantha Vibert and Catherine Scott, working with SFU biology professor Gerhard Gries, recorded the vibrations made by male black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus), hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis) and prey insects.
Date: Jan 17, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
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SFU Researchers: Male black widow spiders twerk for affection
This conclusion was published in an open access journal titled 'Frontiers in Zoology'. It was discovered by Simon Fraser graduate students Samantha Vibert and Catherine Scott, as well as biology professor Gerhard Gries."The (spider's) web functions as an extension of the spider's exquisitely tuned sensory system, allowing her to very quickly detect and respond to prey coming into contact with her silk," says Catherine Scott.
Date: Jan 17, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Male Black Widow Spiders “Twerk” to Avoid Being Eaten by Females
This is a smart move, since the females web functions as an extension of the spiders exquisitely tuned sensory system, allowing her to very quickly detect and respond to prey coming into contact with her silk, said study co-author Catherine Scott, also at Simon Fraser.
Date: Jan 17, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
The duchess and the novelist: Hilary Mantel draws fire for Kate 'plastic princess ...
Others argued that Mantels real target was not Kate, but the press. On the Daily Telegraph website, journalist Catherine Scott said Mantels speech was an attack on how some parts of the media canonize royal women ... while also rendering them voiceless and purposeless.