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| WENSELEERS, T.; BACON, J. P.; ALVES, D. A.; COUVILLON, M. J.; KARCHER, M.; NASCIMENTO, F. S.; NOGUEIRA NETO, P.; RIBEIRO, M. de F.; ROBINSON, E. J. H.; TOFILSKI, A.; RATNIEKS, F. W.. |
| Spiders of the tropical American colonial orb weaver Parawixia bistriata form a communal bivouac in daytime. At sunset, they leave the bivouac and construct individual, defended webs within a large, communally built scaffolding of permanent, thick silk lines between trees and bushes. Once spiders started building a web, they repelled other spiders walking on nearby scaffolding with a bounce behavior. In nearly all cases (93%), this resulted in the intruder leaving without a fight, akin to the bourgeois strategy, in which residents win and intruders retreat without escalated contests. However, a few spiders (6.5%) did not build a web due to lack of available space.Webless spiders were less likely to leave when bounced (only 42% left) and instead attempted... |
| Tipo: Separatas |
Palavras-chave: Parawixia bistriata; Ecologia e sociabilidade.; Ecologia; Colônia.; Ecology. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/959280 |
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