The term glomerulonephritis (GN) covers a group of conditions in which there is injury in the glomerulus, the filtering unit of the kidney. This can occur either as a primary glomerular disease, or secondary to drugs, infections or tumours (see Secondary Glomerular Disease, pp 464â466 of this issue).
As insects are spiders' main prey, it is likely that they would impose strong selectional forces on the foraging behavior of spiders. Most commonly found in the sheet-web spider families, some webs will have loose, irregular tangles of silk above them.
Birds, lizards, snakes, scorpions, and other spiders all prey on spiders. Some insects also hunt down spiders, including the mantis and a wasp that specializes in catching and paralyzing spiders. The wasp buries the spider alive, so that its young can feed on fresh food when they hatch. Printer Friendly.