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Rare crickets scale the rocks |
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while translucent earwigs |
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and milky millipedes forage for food |
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These are cave specialists, |
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or troglobites, |
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and they never leave the lava tube |
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Over time,most have lost their eyes and colour, |
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like this plant hopper |
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Its tail has a curious function |
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Any predator biting it from behind |
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will be left with nothing but a mouthful of irritating waxy hair |
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This is a place of ghostly stillness - |
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a definite advantage for the small-eyed big-eyed hunting spider |
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With its super-sensitive leg hairs, |
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it can pick up the slightest movement in the air, |
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and it senses the cricket's presence |
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long before it's close enough to ambush |
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As prey are few and far between, |
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this may be its last meal for some time |
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With no light and little vegetation, |
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only the specialists survive here |
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But that isn't the case for all lava tubes |
