Phys.org: Feather-legged lace weaver spider kills prey by covering it with toxic silk
Feather-legged lace weaver spider kills prey by covering it with toxic silk
IFLScience: Want To Kill Your Prey? Do It Feather-Legged Lace Weaver Spider Style And Vomit All Over Them
Want To Kill Your Prey? Do It Feather-Legged Lace Weaver Spider Style And Vomit All Over Them
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A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers them with a web of silk and then covers the silk with regurgitated toxins.
AOL: The 7 Types of Spider Webs and the Incredible Spiders That Make Them
The 7 Types of Spider Webs and the Incredible Spiders That Make Them
New Scientist: Young cupboard spiders sometimes turn cannibal and eat their siblings
Baby cupboard spiders that can’t find enough food resort to devouring their siblings. Cannibalism has been observed in several spider species, but it typically involves adult females eating males ...
A single drawing from a 94-year-old scientific paper has revived interest in one of the more roundabout ways a spider preps its dinner. First swathe a fruit fly or ...
Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny fraction of the 17.9 million deaths caused by cardiovascular disease. Yet ...