Today, a similar tactic is used by much smaller and more fascinating predators – slingshot spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum). These arachnids, also known as ray spiders, have evolved a unique hunting ...

Three men have been arrested and charged with hunting a wild animal with a dog. Norfolk Police's Rural Crime Team said it ...

Researchers have uncovered a unique hunting strategy of a slingshot spider or ray spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum). These stealthy hunters launch their “ballistic web” at unsuspecting prey.

Most spider orb webs are static: the spiders weave them and fix them in place and then wait for prey to fly into the webs.

Slingshot, or ray spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum ... in the lab with twigs to build their webs upon, Han also went hunting for mosquitoes, ready to tempt the spiders. She then attached individual ...

Three men have been arrested and charged with hunting a wild animal with a dog ... One of the men was also charged with use of a slingshot to take, kill or injure a deer. On Facebook, the force ...

But slingshot spiders, also called ray spiders ... further supporting the idea that sound is key to their hunting. And their vision probably doesn’t play much, if any, of a role, since these ...

COLUMN. This species, just a few millimeters in size, spins its web and then violently hurls it when it detects the approach ...

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