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Long-distance navigation in the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola: can the slope of the dune surface provide a compass cue?
Nørgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R. Nørgaard T, et al. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2003 Nov;189(11):801-9. doi: 10.1007/s00359-003-0455-6. Epub 2003 Sep 30. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2003. PMID: 14520496 Free article.
Males of the nocturnal spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae: Sparassidae) wander long distances over seemingly featureless dune surfaces in the Namib Desert searching for females. ...Analyses of the reconstructed paths suggest that gravity (slope of the dune …
Males of the nocturnal spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae: Sparassidae) wander long distances over seemingly featureless dun …
Vision in the nocturnal wandering spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae: Sparassidae).
Nørgaard T, Nilsson DE, Henschel JR, Garm A, Wehner R. Nørgaard T, et al. J Exp Biol. 2008 Mar;211(Pt 5):816-23. doi: 10.1242/jeb.010546. J Exp Biol. 2008. PMID: 18281345 Free article.
At night the Namib Desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola performs long-distance homing across its sand dune habitat. By disabling all or pairs of the spiders' eight eyes we found that homing ability was severely reduced when vision was fully abolished. ...
At night the Namib Desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola performs long-distance homing across its sand dune habitat. By disabling al …