Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira) - feeding behavior - Pisaurina mira

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Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira) - feeding behavior - Pisaurina mira -

Lilburn, Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA
February 27, 2011

Remaining within direct sight of the prey, the spider then spent about 15 minutes in a kind of "grooming" behavior. He systematically ran all eight legs between his chelicerae, occasionally "picking" at the fine hairs with his fangs.

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Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira) - eye arrangement example #2 - Pisaurina mira - male

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira) - feeding behavior - Pisaurina mira - male

Contributed by acbaker on 15 March, 2011 - 9:19am

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