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Ineffective crypsis in a crab spider: a prey community perspective

Brechbühl, Rolf ; Casas, Jérôme ; Bacher, Sven

In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009///doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1632

Cryptic coloration is assumed to be beneficial to predators because of an increased encounter rate with unwary prey. This hypothesis is, however, very rarely, if ever, studied in the field. The aim of this study was to quantify the encounter rate and capture success of an ambush predator, in the field, as a function of its level of colour-matching with the background. We used the crab spider...