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Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to Seduce Its Prey (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Joke based on obnoxious internet "hot single women in your area". The women have been replaced with firefly pictures from the article, and the text changed accordingly, as if the spiders were running the ads to fool horny fireflies.

It's an interesting approach - to hijack the communication of another species against itself, for your own benefit.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 6 points 3 months ago

That's really interesting. I don't think spiders teach their offspring, so this must be an evolved trait.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

the web. where spiders are spiders, fireflies are spiders and researchers... are probably spiders.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Spiders setting up websites for extream identity theft?