Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in the spider's main web about a foot above the spring-loaded trap ...

In fact, this newly discovered species, which scientists are calling the ballista spider, hunts green tree ants exclusively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Ajay Narendra A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey directly into its web has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wasp spider in its web inside Sierra Mariola Natural Park in Bocairent, Valencian Community, Spain. Several spider species build ...

When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped ...

A newly discovered spider uses an ingenious method to launch its prey into the air, named after an ancient Roman weapon. The ballista spider was discovered in the rainforests of Far North Queensland.

When an ant bites the silk cone from its anchor point, it is flung into the spider’s web - Ajay Narendra Credit: Ajay Narendra A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey ...