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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

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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.

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...