Cororon
Arachnoknight
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Xysticus crab spiders are hunters. They either just grab random insects that walk into them on the ground, or they sneak up on them. Sometimes they sit on flowers because - nah, I don't have to explain that. I have seen crab spiders checking out abandoned webs made by other spiders (Jumping spiders do that too sometimes), but they don't build webs themselves. Normally.
My Mr. Crabs has been climbing and walking around in his little terrarium and left dragline silk here and there. In a corner he had left plenty of silk, so much that it became almost like a cobweb. I dropped a fly in the terrarium last evening, and it didn't take long before the fly got stuck in the "web". All Mr. Crabs had to do was to walk over to that corner and grab the fly.
It was of course unintentional, and in an enclosed space, but I'm sure this happens in nature as well occasionally.
My Mr. Crabs has been climbing and walking around in his little terrarium and left dragline silk here and there. In a corner he had left plenty of silk, so much that it became almost like a cobweb. I dropped a fly in the terrarium last evening, and it didn't take long before the fly got stuck in the "web". All Mr. Crabs had to do was to walk over to that corner and grab the fly.
It was of course unintentional, and in an enclosed space, but I'm sure this happens in nature as well occasionally.