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Home Of A Leaf Curling Spider

Home Of A Leaf Curling Spider

Leaf-curling Spiders hoist a leaf from the ground and, using silk threads, curl it to form a protective cylinder, silked shut at the top and open at the hub.. T...
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Leaf-curling Spiders hoist a leaf from the ground and, using silk threads, curl it to form a protective cylinder, silked shut at the top and open at the hub.. They then sit in this cylinder with only their legs showing, feeling for the vibrations of a captured insect. The curled leaf protects them from birds and parasitic wasps.
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OLYMPUS E-M5MarkII

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Aperture f/6.7 ISO 500 Shutter 1/800 Focal Length 300/1

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Dec, 2017

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