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While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the 1990s disagreed. In 1995, scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...

The feather-legged lace weaver spider subdues prey by covering it with silk coated in regurgitated toxins, rather than injecting venom through fangs. This species lacks venom glands and fang ducts ...

Yet that predation-by-silk-and-toxic-barf turns out to be exactly how the spider called a feather-legged lace weaver (Uloborus plumipes) kills its meals.Zancolli and colleagues describe the novel ...

Their unique webs catch insects that fall into the funnel and get caught, providing dinner for the grass spider! Orb Weaver (Araneidae) Orb Weavers build their large webs and then dangle below, ...

Whether it is the glistening spiral of an orb weaver’s trap or the tangle of a cobweb, these complex structures are more than just a sticky net. When you look at a web, you are viewing a ...

Webs are not just traps; they are carefully constructed structures, created through a combination of instinct and purpose, using silk. Not all spiders build webs in the same way, or at all. The ...