{"id":170744,"date":"2024-11-08T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/this-spider-traps-flashy-fireflies-as-bait-to-catch-related-prey\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:43:06","slug":"this-spider-traps-flashy-fireflies-as-bait-to-catch-related-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/this-spider-traps-flashy-fireflies-as-bait-to-catch-related-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"This spider traps flashy fireflies as bait to catch related prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/081624_EG_firefly-spider_feat-800x450.jpg?fit=800,450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"This spider traps flashy fireflies as bait to catch related prey\" title=\"This spider traps flashy fireflies as bait to catch related prey\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>beetle<\/strong>: An order of insects known as Coleoptera, containing at least 350,000 different species. Adults tend to have hard and\/or horn-like \u201cforewings\u201d which covers the wings used for flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>biology<\/strong>: The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ecologist<\/strong>: A scientist who works in a branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>firefly<\/strong>: An insect in the family Lampyridae. Also called lightning bugs, fireflies are not flies at all, but <strong>beetles<\/strong>. They are known for their beautiful nighttime flashes of light, called bioluminescence. There are more than 2,000 firefly species around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand<\/strong>: An island nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,500 kilometers (some 900 miles) east of Australia. Its \u201cmainland\u201d \u2014 consisting of a North and South Island \u2014 is quite volcanically active. In addition, the country includes many far smaller offshore islands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>orb<\/strong>: Something having a spherical shape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>sequence<\/strong>: The precise order of related things within some\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>silk<\/strong>: A fine, strong, soft fiber spun by a range of animals, such as silkworms and many other caterpillars, weaver ants, caddis flies and\u00a0spiders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>species<\/strong>: A group of similar organisms capable of producing offspring that can survive and reproduce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>spider<\/strong>: A type of arthropod with four pairs of legs that usually spin threads of silk that they can use to create webs or other structures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>tactic<\/strong>: An action or plan of action to accomplish a particular feat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>unique<\/strong>: Something that is unlike anything else; the only one of its kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>venom<\/strong>: A poisonous secretion of an animal, such as a snake, spider or scorpion, usually transmitted by a bite or sting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/spider-trap-fireflies-bait-lure-prey\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beetle: An order of insects known as Coleoptera, containing at least 350,000 different species. Adults tend to have hard and\/or horn-like \u201cforewings\u201d which covers the wings used for flight. biology: The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists. ecologist: A scientist who works in a branch of biology that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/081624_EG_firefly-spider_feat-800x450.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[132701,4084,132700,132699,11039,5411,14849,121932],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170746,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170744\/revisions\/170746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}