In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...
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Scientists find spiders smell with their legs and the science behind it is fascinatingWe showed that the wall-pore sensilla are not unique to wasp spiders but are prevalent across the spider tree of life. Under the microscope We examined male and female A. bruennichi spiders by ...
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Spiders 'smell' with their legs, new research findsWe showed that the wall-pore sensilla are not unique to wasp spiders but are prevalent across the spider tree of life. Under the microscope We examined male and female A. bruennichi spiders ...
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