Spider Revolutions.

Authors :: Henschel, Joh
Source :: Natural History. Mar95, Vol. 104 Issue 3, p36-39. 4p. 3 Color Photographs.
Publication Year :: 1995
Abstract: Focuses on the wheel spiders, Carparachne aureoflava, found in the dunes of the Namib Desert in Africa. Use of a planar wheel for locomotion; Characteristics of the physical appearance of wheel spiders; Predatory techniques; How wheel spiders ambush small vertebrates such as geckos; Consideration of how spiders will inhabit the abandoned homes of wasps and other insects.