Making the invisible visible: methods to enhance features of tiny spider webs

 

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Awduron: Solano Brenes, Diego, Miranda Garnier, Ximena, Barrantes Montero, Gilbert
Fformat: artículo original
Dyddiad Cyhoeddi:2018
Disgrifiad:The characteristics and designs of webs provide valuable information on ecology, behavior and phylogenetic relationships. Characters are often obtained from detailed analyses of web photographs. We describe new methods to enhance web visibility; they consisted of painting the inner surfaces of Petri dishes with an opaque black spray paint that produced a rough surface, and then applying a salt spray from a nebulizer or fine white powder to tiny webs constructed in there. Using these methods on webs of Oecobius concinnus Simon, 1893, we discerned several unknown details of the refuge and cribellar threads that had previously gone undetected.
Gwlad:Kérwá
Sefydliad:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/79058
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://hdl.handle.net/10669/79058
Allweddair:Nebulizer method
tiny webs
Oecobius concinnus