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Feather-legged lace weaver
Uloborus plumipes ??
10.0291, 76.3594
Field Notes
Description:
Small spiny white orb weaver. About 5mm body length excluding the long front legs. Weaves a circular web parallel to the ground. When disturbed vibrates very fast in a circular motion. They weave a special kind of web without the usual glue. They are non venomous.
Habitat:
Spotted among dead leafs in my garden.
Notes:
"The swathe of gossamer, made of thousands of filaments, emerging from these spigots is actively combed out by the spider onto the capture thread's core fibres using specialist hairs on its hind legs,' said Professor Fritz Vollrath, the other author of the work. 'This combing and hackling – violently pulling the thread – charges the fibres and the electrostatic interaction of this combination spinning process leads to regularly spaced, wool-like 'puffs' covering the capture threads. The extreme thinness of each filament, in addition to the charges applied during spinning, provides Van der Waals adhesion. And this makes these puffs immensely sticky.' "--( http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-01-28-spider-electro-combs-its-sticky-nan… )
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