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

Weaver ants are arboreal ants distributed in South Asia and Australia, and are known to secrete a venom primarily composed of formic acid and to be extremely ferocious and aggressive. The Australian ...

Researchers have documented a newly recognised spider that uses a spring-powered silk snare to catch the aggressive green tree ant Oecophylla smaragdina. The ant bites what looks like a small silk ...

IT’S a task that makes looking for a needle in a haystack seem easy – hunting down a tiny insect in a vast area of Scottish wilderness. Yet as part of a remarkable project to save one of the country’s ...