A bolas spider is a member of the orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae) that, instead of spinning a typical orb web, hunts by using one or more sticky "capture blobs" on the end of a silk line, known as a "bolas".

2023年9月3日 · The fascinating Bolas Spider is known for its unique hunting techniques that distinguish it from other spiders. These creatures employ a special method of capturing their prey, involving a long line of silk with a sticky glob of glue at the end.

Mastophora hutchinsoni, also known as the American bolas spider, is a species of orb weaver in the genus Mastophora. The genus is distributed extensively throughout various subtropical geographical areas including Australia, South Africa, Oriental Asia, and the Americas and is not found in Europe.

2015年3月17日 · Bolas spiders (members of the genus Mastophora, in North America) are famous for their unusual prey capture technique: rather than a web, they produce a single silk line with a super-sticky ball of glue at the end, which they fling at their prey.

The Magnificent Spider, as one of the Bolas spider group, has evolved a highly sophisticated way of capturing prey using a single line of sticky silk to capture moths. Identification. There are three species of Bolas spider found in eastern Australia: The Magnificent Spider, Ordgarius magnificus, O. furcatus, and O. monstrosus.

2023年10月7日 · Common name refers to this genus' practice of snaring prey in mid-flight by swinging a silk line with an adhesive blob on the end. 15 species total in North America, north of Mexico. Glistening appearance, like a fresh bird dropping, and pair of lumps on the dorsal surface of the abdomen seem to be genus-wide traits.

Shortly after dusk, the spider lowers herself on silk threads, spins a silk line with a sticky blob on the end of it and swings it to catch the moths or other insects that have been attracted by the chemicals. The spider gets its name from the bolas (ball-on-a-string) weapon used by Eskimos and South American Indians. © Peter J. Bryant

Mastophora, also known as bolas spiders, [2] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by E. L. Holmberg in 1876. [3] They can be identified by a pair of lumps on the dorsal surface of the opisthosoma, though not all males will have these lumps. [2]

Active spiders engaged in four types of behaviors: (1) questing without a bolas, (2) creating a bolas and questing with it, (3) capturing a moth with a bolas, and (4) eating a moth. Spiders were most often found questing without a bolas, actively hanging from a …

2015年11月13日 · Bolas spiders are among the most remarkable spiders in the world. These odd animals are in the family Araneidae, the orb weavers. But unlike the majority of species in this large family, they do not build an orb web. Instead, they hang in a very simple trapeze of silk just below a branch in a tree or shrub.