caa a22 4500 465789161 CHVBK 20180323112018.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01417908 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01417908 The escape strategy of green lacewings from orb webs [Elektronische Daten] [W. Masters, Thomas Eisner] When green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) fly into spider orb webs, they often simply reverse their flight direction and pull away (Table I). If a lacewing is trapped, it uses a specialized escape behavior. It first cuts away the sticky strands entangling head, feet, and antennae. If an antenna cannot be freed by tugging, it uses an "antenna climb” (Fig. 5A). After its body is free, the lacewing remains suspended by its hair-covered wings, which are held in a characteristic cruciform position (Fig. 5B). Orb web sticky strands adhere poorly to the hairy wings (Fig. 7), so the chrysopid may just wait until the strands slide off and it falls free. If placed in an orb web when the spider is at the web hub and ready to attack, a lacewing usually does not have time to escape (Fig. 1). When the spider is at the hub but eating, the chances of escape improve, and when the spider is away from the hub attacking other prey, nearly all lacewings in our experiment were able to escape. This finding emphasizes the importance of the spider's activity in its capture success. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1990 Chrysopidae nationallicence Araneidae nationallicence lacewings nationallicence spiders nationallicence orb webs nationallicence escape behavior nationallicence prey capture nationallicence Masters W. Department of Zoology, Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, Ohio aut Eisner Thomas Section ofNeurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, New York aut Journal of Insect Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 3/2(1990-03-01), 143-157 0892-7553 3:2<143 1990 3 10905 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01417908 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01417908 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Masters W. Department of Zoology, Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, Ohio aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eisner Thomas Section ofNeurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, New York aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Insect Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 3/2(1990-03-01), 143-157 0892-7553 3:2<143 1990 3 10905 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer