How do #spiders catch #insects? 🕷️🤗🪰 Many spiders coat threads with sticky substances when constructing snares. Such snares can be the capture spiral of #orbwebs 🕸️ to intercept flying prey 🪰🦟 or ground traps to capture walking prey 🐜🪳 (so-called gumfoots). 1/4

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Starting the #dzg23 with the fascinating talk of Jonas Wolff of the EVO|MEC group in the spiderFest symposium 🕷️🕸️🕸️

Now in the SpiderFest of the #dzg23 our bachelor student Denise Becker Morgan Oberweiser @monika_eberhard is talking about shaky affairs in Pisaura mirabilis 🕷️❤️🕷️

Up next: sperm release in male spiders by 🕷️Gabriele Uhl. Then : Warmer winter and phenotypic plasticity☀️❄️ by Carolina Ortiz-Movliav and we finish this amazing spider SpiderFest at #dzg23 with how spiders smell? 👃🏼By Belal Talukder.

Officially starting the #dzg23 DZG in Kassel with an introduction by Gabriele Uhl

Our PhD student Carolina Ortiz-Movliav presented again in the evolution section of the main meeting DZG Evolution #dzg23 about phenotypic plasticity in a cold adapted population of A. bruennichi 🕷️❄️☀️

Our PhD student Belal Talukder just presented again in the main meeting of #dzg23 at the morphology session about the mystery of spider smelling 🕷️👃🏼

Day 2 brings us another round of fantastic poster pitches at #DZG23! 🌟📊

Time to activate your spidey senses!🕷️ Morgan Oberweiser* is shedding light on how spiders perceive variation in vibratory signals and assess signal quality! 🕸️🔊#DZG23 *student presenter

Our PhD student Morgan Oberweiser @monika_eberhard just gave a talk with very “good vibes” on the variation of vibration signals in P. mirabilis at the #dzg23 in the behavioral session. ❤️🕷️💙

President Gabriele Uhl now announces the first award, the Werner-Rathmayer-Award. The winner is Julian Kehm from Lörrach. He presents his findings on the bat community of his home town. Key finding is the arrival of the mediterranean Alpine bat in this area of SW-Germany. #dzg23

Our very own Dr. Carsten Müller sniffing out evolutionary connections between wall-pore and tip-pore sensilla 👃🏼🕷️👅

Congratulations to our bachelor student Denise Becker (@monika_eberhard) and PhD student Maitry Jani (EVO|MEC) for their poster prize wins! 🥳🕷️🤩🕸️❤️ #dzg23