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Spiders Are Trapping Fireflies in Their Webs and Using Their Glow to Lure Fresh Prey

At night in the forests of East Asia, fireflies glow to attract mates. But sometimes their signals are hijacked. Sheet web ...
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Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs

The findings, published Thursday (Aug. 28) in the Journal of Animal Ecology, revealed the LED webs attracted three times more prey than the empty webs. When just looking at the number of fireflies ...