Foraging at the thermal limit: burrowing
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Y. D. Lubin; J. R. Henschel
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Article
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1990
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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In the Namib Desert dunes, the web of Seothyra sp. (Eresidae) comprises sticky silk lining the edges of a horizontal mat on the sand surface. The spider sits in a silk-lined burrow attached to the mat. Arthropods become entangled in the sticky silk of the mat and are attacked and pulled into the bur