ミールワームを捕食するオオヒメグモ幼体 Common House Spider Eating Mealworm

オオヒメグモは飼育容器内にも不規則網を張って獲物を待つ。同種の成体♂と幼体を同居させています。試しに入れてみたミールワーム（チャイロコメノゴミムシダマシ幼虫）は­いかにもスカベンジャーらしく容器の底でクモの食べ残しや保湿用の草を食べていた。この日ようやくオオヒメグモの粘球糸に掛かって吊り上げられ幼体の餌食になった。プチ食­物連鎖の輪が閉じました♪　上から入れたミールワームが網に引っ掛かったのではありません。宙吊りになる瞬間は見逃しました。

Mealworm (Tenebrio molitor, family Tenebrionidae) roaming at the bottom was hoisted by sticky silks and trapped in the tangled web (deadly booby-trap!). A spiderling of the common house spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum, family Theridiidae) came to feast on the prey far bigger than himself. Mid-April, 2007 in Japan.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7vIi_TFj_0_6hMLvbVniJg?feat=directlink
Music : prinsW - Sounds For The Basic Vol1

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• house
• spider
• spiderling
• mealworm
• feeding
• クモ
• 蜘蛛
• オオヒメグモ
• 幼体
• ヒメグモ科
• ミルワーム
• ミールワーム
• 捕食

[NSKOful]

@sigma1920....what the music?? i want to know

[sigma1920]

audio info was in the end of vid description.

or u should click on the "statistics & data" below the player.

[sephiroth7owns7you]

It's always interesting to watch spiders do things. Not just feeding, but individual behaviors of various species as well. Like wolf spider when it runs, it's legs are so freakishly fast. Or jumping spiders, those things can be vicious.

[sigma1920]

thanks!

i love watching spiders, too.

their behaviours fascinate me a lot.

i have dozens of spider vid clips.

go to the top of my channel and u can find the playlists "my vids - jumping spiders" and "my vids - spiders (non-jumpers)".

and youtube still needs more spider footages!

make a vid of spiders in ur neighbourhood, if u can.

[mankalephallang]

I Think the House spider is the most distributed Spider of the world.

The can even live in cooler regions with winter periods

We have couple of them at our wall!

[Paik991]

I am thinking about..what happens if you feed a spider and be nice to it... would it accept you as a friend?~.~ like an pet?XD with 8 legs and a fetish of bugs and webs... You could be the new spidermanxDD

[mickymock1234]

its humping it!!!

[AFlYiNtAcO]

@xXtyrannizingXx i always do that when i see spiders that huge

[xXtyrannizingXx]

i'd blow it up with a firework after its done eating

wouldn't wanna see that huge ass to waste :]]

[ikbrandon]

this world is filled with amazing things..things that cannot be expressed into words.

[amber2cute101]

ok wierd!