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The Biology of Camel-Spiders - Arachnida, Solifugae (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The Biology of Camel-Spiders - Arachnida, Solifugae (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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My initial interest in the Solifugae (camel-spiders) stems from an
incident that occurred in the summer of 1986. I was studying the
behavioral ecology of spider wasps of the genus Pepsis and their
interactions with their large theraphosid (tarantula) spider hosts,
in the Chihuahuan Desert near Big Bend National Park, Texas. I was
monitoring a particular tarantula burrow one night when I noticed
the resident female crawl up into the burrow entrance. Hoping to
take some photographs of prey capture, I placed a cricket near the
entrance and waited for the spider to pounce. Suddenly, out of the
comer of my eye appeared a large, rapidly moving yellowish form
which siezed the cricket and quickly ran off with it until it
disappeared beneath a nearby mesquite bush. So suddenly and quickly
had the sequence of events occurred, that I found myself
momentarily startled. With the aid of a headlamp I soon located the
intruder, a solifuge, who was already busy at work macerating the
insect with its large chelicerae (jaws). When I attempted to nudge
it with the edge of my forceps, it quickly moved to another
location beneath the bush. When I repeated this maneuver, the
solifuge dropped the cricket and lunged at the forceps, gripping
them tightly in its jaws, refusing to release them until they were
forcefully pulled away.
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