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Microscopy used to Show how Spiders Hide!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen W. Carmichael
Stephen W. Carmichael*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic
*
carmichael.stephen@mayo.edu

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It has been appreciated that many invertebrates have morphologic and/or behavioral traits that help them survive by camouflage for predator avoidance or being stealthy predators themselves. The morphologic features that are involved have been described in greater detail as the technology has evolved. Recently, Rebecca Duncan, Kellar Autumn, and Greta Binford have used dissecting microscopes and scanning electron microscopes (SEM) to reveal new details of how certain species of spiders hide themselves by covering themselves with sand, and how the sand particles tenaciously stick to the spiders’ bodies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , March 2008 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2008

Footnotes

1

The author gratefully acknowledges Dr. Greta Binford and Ms. Rebecca Duncan for reviewing this article.

References

Note

2 Duncan, R.P., Autumn, K., and Binford, G.J., Convergent setal morphology in sand-covering spiders suggests a design principle for particle capture, Proc. Royal Soc. B, 274: 3049-3056, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar