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http://dx.doi.org/10.17663/JWR.2011.13.1.139

Web building strategy of a wasp spider, Argiope bruennichi, under sensory stimuli emitted by a cricket, Teleogryllus emma  

Jin, Woo-Young (인천대학교 자연과학대학 생명과학부)
Kim, Kil-Won (인천대학교 자연과학대학 생명과학부)
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Journal of Wetlands Research / v.13, no.1, 2011 , pp. 139-148 More about this Journal
Abstract
Web structure of spiders is a foraging strategy as well as an investment to get prey. In order to make a good foraging decision spiders should change its foraging strategy in the basis of sensory information provided by potential prey species. We conducted experiments to demonstrate whether a wasp spider, Argiope bruennichi modifies its web-building behavior after experiencing sensory information emitted by a cricket species, Teleogryllus emma. To know how the web structures would be modified, we quantified web characteristics after providing sensory information of the cricket and compared to the control group. Web construction decreased in the course of the experiment in both, control group(without stimulus) and experimental group(with stimuli). The results did not show remarkable differences between two groups. However, on the first day after providing sensory information of the cricket, the web-building behavior of A. bruennichi decreased only in 3.7% of the experimental group individuals against 11.8% of the control group individuals. The number of the stabilimentum constructions decreased overall in both groups. On the first day the decreasing proportion was doubled in the control group(14.7%), comparing to the experimental group(7.4%). The individuals did not lower its web height and did not extend its web area according to sensory information of the prey.
Keywords
web-building behavior; sensory information; Argiope; cricket;
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