Vampire Spiders and Franken-Mosquitoes: New on AAAS

Jul 3

Written By maryb

Vampire jumping spiders like to eat female blood-engorged Anopheles mosquitoes above all else. Ximena Nelson and Robert Jackson created Franken-Mosquitoes, combining body parts from male and female mosquitoes, to see what features spiders used to choose their prey. Read about what they found at my latest blog post at AAAS Member Central.

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