Cyclosa mulmeinensis, the spider inspired by camels.🐫
No, just kidding! Orb-web weavers existed much before camels. So it must be the camels who borrowed from C. mulmeinensis the cool idea of sporting two humps in the back.
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The doppelgängers are created using bits of foliage and dead insect carcasses.
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2 species of #Cyclosa #orb-weaving-spiders employ this ingenious #visual-defense strategy of building bigger, more threatening doppelgängers in their webs.
These both deter larger predators and serve as a distraction for potential prey.
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Cyclosa sp. with a line of junk attached vertically in the middle of the web. In the center of this line and the web, is the spider with its 8 legs all gathered close to the body, so as to camouflage itself with the junk. The abdomen of this species has a peculiar shape, with a protuberance on the dorsal apex.
Detail of Cyclosa sp. with a line of junk attached vertically in the middle of the web. In the center of this line and the web, is the spider with its 8 legs all gathered close to the body, so as to camouflage itself with the junk. The abdomen of this species has a peculiar shape, with a protuberance on the dorsal apex.
#Cyclosa sp., #Araneidae.
These spiders decorate their webs with various junk so as to be mistaken for junk themselves and to confuse potential predators, not the prey. They are quite aesthetically beautiful spiders.
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