What website to invade? Argyrodine kleptoparasites differentiate between architecturally different host networks
Kleptoparasitism, the theft of resources from another organism, is a widespread foraging strategy among animals. Many argyrodinae web spiders (teridiidae) are obligate kleptoparasites that have abandoned network construction, relying instead on larger host networks (kleptotanies). Theory predicts that kleptoparasites are not randomly distributed among host networks, and previous studies indicate that network architecture (size and…
