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floofloof to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months ago

Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to Seduce Its Prey

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Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to Seduce Its Prey

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floofloof to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months ago
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An unassuming orb-weaving spider common across China, Japan, and Korea seems to have the powers of a master manipulator.
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  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    Joke based on obnoxious internet "hot single women in your area". The women have been replaced with firefly pictures from the article, and the text changed accordingly, as if the spiders were running the ads to fool horny fireflies.

    It’s an interesting approach - to hijack the communication of another species against itself, for your own benefit.

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    That’s really interesting. I don’t think spiders teach their offspring, so this must be an evolved trait.

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    the web. where spiders are spiders, fireflies are spiders and researchers… are probably spiders.

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    Spiders setting up websites for extream identity theft?

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