Bird Dropping Spider

Description

Many species of arthropods have evolved and adapted certain measures to deter predators. Some even mimic bird poop! In Singapore, the Bird-dropping Spider, Cyrtarachne bufo, hides on branches and leaves, pulling its legs in under its body and playing dead. Spiders of this genus specialise in catching moths, whose loose scales let them escape most webs; their few, widely spaced threads carry unusually large glue droplets that stick to moths anyway.