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A bolas spider is a member of the orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae) that, instead of spinning a typical orb web, hunts by using one or more sticky "capture blobs" on the end of a silk line, known as a "bolas".
The spitting spiders Scytodes can spit a venomous sticky fluid that traps its victims and also poisons them. [1] The bombardier beetle is unusual by using a violent exothermic chemical reaction to launch a boiling noxious chemical spray in a rapid burst of pulses from special glands in its abdomen, accompanied with a popping sound.
Myrmekiaphila is a genus of North American mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by G. F. Atkinson in 1886. [2] All described species are endemic to the southeastern United States. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, [3] then to the Euctenizidae in ...
You might've heard the urban legend that sleeping people swallow about eight spiders a year. The "factoid" is definitely eye-catching — but it's also improbable.
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They spin webs as thick as 10 feet wide and offer several benefits of sticking (or spinning) around.
The trap features a chain with a swivel snap at one end and a ring at the other; the spikes on its jaws point inward. Traps of this kind were commonly used for black bear trapping and were set with clamps (these types are not used any more) Setting and triggering a "gin" or foothold trap, demonstrated at the Black Country Living Museum
Mastophora, also known as bolas spiders, [2] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by E. L. Holmberg in 1876. [3] They can be identified by a pair of lumps on the dorsal surface of the opisthosoma , though not all males will have these lumps.