Name the Insect or Spider

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Klipspringer wrote: Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:06 pm One of the spiders cartwheeling down sand dunes -O-

^Q^ ^Q^ Klippies!

The Wheel or Tumbling spider!


Wheel spiders are up to 20 mm in size, with males and females the same size. The wheel spider is a nocturnal, free-ranging hunter, coming out at night to prey on insects and other small invertebrates. Its bite is mildly venomous, but the spider is not known to be harmful to humans.

The wheel spider does not produce a web. Its principal line of defence against predation is to bury itself in a silk-lined burrow extending 40–50 cm deep. During the process of digging its burrow, the spider can shift up to 10 litres (2.6 US gal) of sand, 80,000 times its body weight. It is during the initial stages of building a burrow that the spider is vulnerable to pompilid wasps, which will sting and paralyze the spider before planting eggs in its body. If the spider is unable to fight off a wasp, and if it is on a sloped dune, it will use its rolling speed of 1 metre per second (3.3 ft/s) to escape


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O/\ O/\ O/\

Watch this




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No habla espanol! lol


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Klippie! :shock: ^Q^ ^Q^


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Good one, RP ^Q^ ^Q^

Cool video O\/


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:ty:


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I am a member of the small privileged minority amongst us. I never do any work and spend my days in our cosy home eating lots of sweets and wait for THE opportunity.


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Queen bee?


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:yes:


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Klipspringer wrote: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:50 pm I am a member of the small privileged minority amongst us. I never do any work and spend my days in our cosy home eating lots of sweets and wait for THE opportunity.
That's me! =O:


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