Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Researchers have documented a newly recognised spider that uses a spring-powered silk snare to catch the aggressive green ...

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A study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, describes how the tiny arachnid builds a cone-shaped snare to catapult green tree ants into its web, earning it the nickname “ballista ...

Researchers discovered a new `ballista spider` that uses a spring-powered silk trap to capture green tree ants.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from ...

Close-up of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), weaver ants or rangrang ants, macro weaver ants in a green foliage© Faisal.k/Shutterstock.com Scientists have discovered a spider species deep in the ...