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

They were successful in 76 percent of attempts when the insect was in front of the web, compared with only 29 percent when the prey was behind the web. This precision suggests slingshot spiders might ...

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Slingshot spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum) don’t just passively wait for their prey to find its way into their web. Instead, they take action. These arachnids–also called ray spiders–pull the center of ...

Slingshot spiders probably also aren’t the only arachnids that primarily use sound to hunt, which leaves open the possibility that sound is much more crucial a tool to spiders than currently ...

With his "slingshot" delivery and ability to unsettle the world's best batsmen, India's Jasprit Bumrah is widely regarded as ...

The slingshot spider creates a cone-shaped web ... with 76% of launches occurring in this orientation. In contrast, only 29% of web launches targeted prey located behind the spider.

Remarkably, some spiders use much the same strategy. Slingshot, or ray spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum) pull the center of their flat web back, to form a cone with the spider at the tip ...

The silky slingshot: The ray spider is smaller than ... That's a mistake you only make once." The black widow proceeded to build its characteristic cobweb right under its cage.

That's a mistake you only make once." The black widow proceeded ... "They're using the web like a slingshot without the insect ever touching the web." This is unusual, and Han wanted to know ...