Volume 17, Issue 16, Pages R650-R652 (August 2007) Social spiders  Duncan E. Jackson  Current Biology  Volume 17, Issue 16, Pages R650-R652 (August 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.003 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Colonies of the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola, in Namibia. The dense silk nests can contain several hundred spiders and are interconnected with prey capture webs. (Photograph: Trine Bilde.) Current Biology 2007 17, R650-R652DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.003) Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 A small group of Stegodyphus dumicola individuals cooperatively foraging on a grasshopper. (Photograph: Trine Bilde.) Current Biology 2007 17, R650-R652DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.003) Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions