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1 August 2001 HARVESTMEN AS COMMENSALS OF CRAB SPIDERS
Douglass H. Morse
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Abstract

Harvestmen Phalangium opilio regularly feed upon the carcasses of bees and moths discarded by crab spiders Misumena vatia Clerck 1757 hunting on flowers. I report one observation of a harvestman unsuccessfully attempting to secure a bee still being fed on by a crab spider.

Douglass H. Morse "HARVESTMEN AS COMMENSALS OF CRAB SPIDERS," The Journal of Arachnology 29(2), 273-275, (1 August 2001). https://doi.org/10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0273:HACOCS]2.0.CO;2
Received: 12 April 2000; Published: 1 August 2001
KEYWORDS
kleptoparasite
Misumena vatia
Opiliones
Phalangium opilio
scavenger
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