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A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).
Stiphidiidae, also called sheetweb spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described in 1917. [1] Most species are medium size ( Stiphidion facetum is about 8 millimetres (0.31 in) long) and speckled brown with long legs.
Tidarren sisyphoides is a species of spider in the family Theridiidae - the tangle web spiders. The male of this species is only ~1% the size of the female. At copulation, the male dies during insertion and remains attached to the female for more than two hours. However, the female does not eat her mate. The dead male is afterwards removed from ...
A spider trap (or crawler trap) is a set of web pages that may intentionally or unintentionally be used to cause a web crawler or search bot to make an infinite number of requests or cause a poorly constructed crawler to crash. Web crawlers are also called web spiders, from which the name is derived. Spider traps may be created to "catch ...
Amaurobius ferox is known to spin a cribellate web to facilitate prey capture and provide a protective retreat. [2] The web is special because the silk has a unique woolly texture that is caused by extremely thin and extraordinarily sticky fibers, which gives the species its common-name, the black lace-weaver.
One group of spiders that is fairly active this time of year that breaks this stereotype are the wolf spiders. More Nature News: Owls usher in the Halloween spirit with 'who-cooks-for-you' call
A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...
Agelenopsis, commonly known as the American grass spiders, is a genus of funnel weavers described by C.G. Giebel in 1869. [1] They weave sheet webs that have a funnel shelter on one edge. The web is not sticky, but these spiders make up for that by running very rapidly. The larger specimens (depending on species) can grow to about 19 mm in body ...