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Figure 3


Fig. 3. (A–D) Digital images of Pameridea roridulae walking on leaves of Roridula gorgonias covered with glandular trichomes: (A) adult P. roridulae; (B) fifth-instar nymph; (C) first-instar larva; (D) adult sucking on a stuck cricket. (E–G) Prey insects adhering to the secretion: (E,G) ventrally trapped Drosophila sp.; (F) laterally trapped fly of the family Sciaridae. (H) Two images of adhesive secretion filaments pulled away with a needle from the tip of tentacle-shaped trichomes; scale units: millimetres.