How Spiders Avoid Getting Trapped in Their Own Webs

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Small Spiders With Big Appetites Use a Pulley System to Catch Large Prey

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...
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The Table Ingredient That Can Help You Get Rid Of Spiders (But There's A Catch)

Spiders are not the houseguests most people welcome. They crawl into corners, set up sticky traps of webbing, and have a way of appearing at the exact moment you don't want them to. While some will ...
WLWT

Tarantula 'invasion' underway in New Mexico as mating season begins

Tens of thousands of male tarantulas are crawling out of their hiding spots in New Mexico as they look to mate.August through October is tarantula mating season for the Land of Enchantment, which ...
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Its body might be a tiny 1cm, but that doesn't stop this deadly predator kill prey up to a metre long and an enormous 355 times its weight

A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...