Araneophagic assassin bugs choose routes that minimize risk of detection by web-building spiders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-321

  Soley, Fernando G ^a   Taylor, Phillip W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Araneophagy; Dangerous prey; Predatory tactic; Stenolemus giraffa; Web invading

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RISK FACTOR;

ARANEAE; GIRAFFA; HEXAPODA; REDUVIIDAE; STENOLEMUS;

EID: 84864124702     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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