What happened? Did the stripes make the termites unattractive to the spiders? LAUREN GAWEL: Yeah. So ultimately, the stripes are bold, and brash, and attention getting. So in the first part of our ...

Among these are black widow spiders; the formidable Arizona bark scorpion, ... Large moth with brownish-gray wings and prominent white stripes. ... Black widow spiders.

However, the spiders attacked termites in striped capes far less than they did those wearing black or white. H. trimaculatus also showed a proclivity to spotting termites in striped capes first.