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Query:

Subject: Please explain the following behavior.

Date: Sat Aug 14 17:43:33 1999
Posted by Auburn O'Neal
Grade level: 10-12 School: Greenbrier High School
City: Greenbrier State/Province: Tennessee Country: USA
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 934667013.Zo
Message:

On our kitchen window screen, phalangium opilio, or granddaddy longlegs,
congregate.  They form a mass usually larger than a fist.  Even though 
their legs intertwine, and sometimes gently stroke each other, the trucks 
of thier bodies never touch.  Every year, beginning about the middle of 
summer and continuing into the fall, they stake out this specific corner 
of the window and meet, usually by day but sometimes at night.  Could you 
please explain this strange behavior, or, if not, teach how we can record 
data useful in studying this phenomenon?


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