Orb-Web Spiders Evade Predators Using a Bird Poop Disguise
 

Orb-Web Spiders Evade Predators Using a Bird Poop Disguise
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Many animals camouflage themselves to avoid being eaten by predators, but few are as strange as a spider that disguises itself as bird poop.

The orb-web spider's silver body and the white, silken, disc-like decoration on its*web give it an uncanny resemblance to bird droppings. The*spiders may use this*disguise*to avoid being captured by predatory wasps, researchers say.

"These predators usually will form a search image to hunt for spiders, and [they] usually will **t be interested in bird droppings," said lead study researcher I-Min Tso, a behavioral ecologist at the*National Chung-Hsin University*in Taiwan. Read more...

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