Feeding experience affects web relocation and investment in web threads in an orb-web spider, Cyclosa argenteoalba

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1251-1255

  Nakata, Kensuke ^a   Ushimaru, Atushi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING EFFICIENCY; SPIDER WEB;

ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; CYCLOSA; CYCLOSA ARGENTEOALBA;

EID: 0033057571     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1105     Document Type: Article

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