What We Can Learn From 10,000 Pack-Hunting Spiders

What We Can Learn From 10,000 Pack-Hunting Spiders

Posted June 8, 2022

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Most spiders are solitary creatures, but a few species group up instead, creating giant colonies where they live and hunt together.

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Sources:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2020.00036/full#h4
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2115103119
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/286178
​https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7241254/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2010.1700

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Social_Spiders_(Anelosimus_eximius)_in_communal_web_…_(26250754708).jpg
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/web-social-spider-stegodyphus-addo-elephant-1164001324
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/spiderweb-nest-of-the-social-spider-stegodyphus-royalty-free-image/1388623123?adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Argiope_Pulchella_mating_pair..jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Net_of_Social_Spiders_(Anelosimus_eximius)_(14081302626).jpg
Social Spider Colony
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2007-social-spider-1.jpg
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/social-spiders-hunting-stegodyphus-sarasinorum-royalty-free-image/1310040079?adppopup=true
African Colonial Spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Social_Spiders_(Anelosimus_eximius)_communal_web_…_(40140550262).jpg
Social Cobweb Spider - Anelosimus studiosus, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Boynton Beach, Florida
Social Spiders (Anelosimus eximius) in communal web ...
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/social-spiders-stegodyphus-lineatus-bug-prey-2128967879
Social spiders (Theridion nigroannulatum?)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilobot_robot_swarm.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swarm_of_Colias_Robot.jpg
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/honey-bees-entering-beehive-summer-day-in-the-orchard-stock-footage/1311810740?adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonial_Spiders_(Stegodyphus_dumicola)_nest_(6607340075).jpg
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/nest-of-the-social-spider-in-the-branches-of-a-royalty-free-image/1153394246?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/the-web-of-a-social-spider-stegodyphus-mimosarum-in-royalty-free-image/1152775753?adppopup=true

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