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Spiders Are Trapping Fireflies in Their Webs and Using Their Glow to Lure Fresh Prey

At night in the forests of East Asia, fireflies glow to attract mates. But sometimes their signals are hijacked. Sheet web spiders have been caught turning these insects into unwilling accomplices, ...

Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

Sheetweb spiders don't immediately pounce on fireflies caught in their webs, and for good reason, according to new research.
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Study shows spiders using fireflies as bait to draw prey

Researchers observed a species of spiders using fireflies to catch prey. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI Aug. 28 (UPI) ...

Spiders use trapped fireflies as glowing bait to attract more prey

Ecologists have observed a species of nocturnal spider attracting prey to its web using the bioluminescent beacons of already ...
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Spiders learn to trap glowing fireflies then use them as bait to catch dinner

Taiwanese spiders exploit firefly bioluminescence as bait, keeping trapped fireflies alive to attract additional prey.
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Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs

The findings, published Thursday (Aug. 28) in the Journal of Animal Ecology, revealed the LED webs attracted three times more prey than the empty webs. When just looking at the number of fireflies ...