A meal or a male: the ‘whispers’ of black widow males do not trigger a predatory response in females

Artigo: Vibert, S., Scott, C. & Gries, G. (2014). A meal or a male: the ‘whispers’ of black widow males do not trigger a predatory response in females. Front. Zool., 11, 4. https://t.co/SYPDUlpPMI

Study https://t.co/2yxrdsRZNh Referenced at https://t.co/gM7X8BO51O The male, “upon entering a female’s web, will pause and vibrate its abdomen up and down, keeping the rest of its body quite still,” said Samantha Vibert, an entomologist at Simon Fraser U

People have been thinking about how vibrations transmit through the web and generally spider silk is a pretty huge area of research. https://t.co/NhO3hN4MdT

RT @Cataranea: @realscientists (paper is here: http://t.co/Vf3wTEf0sz)