Ballista spider and its snare (IMAGE)

Macquarie University

Ballista spider and its snare

Caption

A ballista spider (Propostira sp.) waits for a green tree ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) to bite the cone of its web and thus spring the snare

Credit

Professor Ajay Narendra et al

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