Earlier this week, thanks to the wonderful science & nature Twitter community, I followed a link from someone now forgotten to an article entitled “7 Symbiotic Wonders of the Aerial World.” Therein, in symbiotic relationship number one, sat a photograph that I found utterly astonishing: According to the WebEcoist website which published this list of [...]
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Behavioral Mimicry in the Golden Garden Spider
I witnessed a pretty awesome display today by my friendly neighborhood Golden Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia), that I had never before seen. In fact, I had no idea that spiders would make such defensive displays. As I approached her web, I noticed the web start to vibrate back and forth in quite an exaggerated fashion. [...]


