Condition-dependent spider web architecture in the western black widow, Latrodectus hesperus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 855-864

  Blackledge, Todd A ^a   Zevenbergen, Jacquelyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

antipredator behaviour; foraging; Latrodectus hesperus; major ampullate silk; orb web structure; state dependent behaviour; Theridiidae; western black widow spider

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY CAPTURE; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS; THERIDIIDAE;

EID: 34247853195     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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