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Palm-sized Joro spiders are ballooning north and have now reached Maryland and Ohio
The Joro spider, a palm-sized orbweaver native to East Asia, has established itself in Maryland and turned up in isolated ...
Newly discovered, the ballista spider rests underneath a leaf during the day. Scientists have witnessed the spider build a ...
This nocturnal rainforest spider has evolved an unusually specialized hunting strategy, using a silk-powered snare to target ...
Scientists have discovered a “ballista spider” that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree ants. The ant unknowingly triggers the mechanism itself, ...
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An Amazonian spider survives by disguising itself as a parasitic fungus
A small spider living in the Amazon rainforest has developed a striking survival strategy: it mimics the appearance of ...
A newly identified Australian spider uses a spring-loaded silk snare to hurl green tree ants into its web at accelerations of 140 G, a study in Current Biology finds.
Researchers tested more than 160 spider species from around the world to determine which arachnid is the quickest on eight ...
Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...
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