caa a22 4500 465781926 CHVBK 20180323111957.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00170893 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00170893 Opell Brent Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061, Blacksburg, VA, USA aut Material investment and prey capture potential of reduced spider webs [Elektronische Daten] [Brent Opell] Summary: The webs of Miagrammopes animotus have a simple structure and variable form. However, both the length of their lines and the total surface area of their capture threads are closely associated with spider size. These spiders' ability to deposit both linear and looped cribellar capture threads along a web's diverging capture lines plays an important role in establishing these relationships. Looped capture threads have the greater surface area and are more prominent in the webs of older spiders where they increase a web's surface area and enhance its ability to retain prey. The predicted performance of these webs is supported by comparisons of the stickiness of their threads and a survey of the prey their owners capture. Cribellar thread stickiness increases with spider size, and larger spiders capture prey that have greater masses. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Springer-Verlag 26/6(1990-06-01), 375-381 0340-5443 26:6<375 1990 26 265 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00170893 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00170893 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Opell Brent Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061, Blacksburg, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Springer-Verlag 26/6(1990-06-01), 375-381 0340-5443 26:6<375 1990 26 265 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer