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Wyer
phil
1972
Journal
5
Ave Cral Genes, 1.6 km NE jcn we San Martin'
Asuncion, Paraguay
(jun aut.)
1-8 June
2 obious termib types, one
maki sbo large black tle nest &
cared trails over branches, which is
common in traying & no maki
covered trails of sand across the groun?
Best arthropods to see are the social
spiders. Hundreds of individuals
to a colony, each individual ~ 1/4 - 3/8" long,
& mostly black w. red markings on the
dorsum & sides of abdomen. The web is
really hundreds of individual webs
spun between shared guy line (from
tree to tree, tree to ground, etc). i.e.,
[illegible]
each weblet ~ 3-4" in diameter.
each individual web is tended
by one spider. This system results in a
remarkably even spacing of the adults
in the web. Spacing is enforced by a
signal where a spider shakes his
web when a neighbor comes too near.
at night all spiders leave the main
web & cluster into silk structures
in the tree at the edge of the web.
looks like a neat system, & worth examining.
Trapping - we set only live traps.