"Ants are particularly good creatures for spiders to pretend to be—many animals find ants distasteful or dangerous to eat," said ... So if a spider can be like an ant, it's more likely to ...

If a male redback is in his web and an ant enters the ... and any other spider we want, in the lab. That means we have to have a whole food chain going, because spiders eat only live prey.

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare ... beaten only by the South American bullet ant, Paraponera clavata. The pain from a bullet ant ...

The opossum was a juvenile, but that doesn’t mean the spider itself was small. Grundler notes that the tarantula was “about the size of a dinner plate,” which is enough to strike fear in the ...

A bite from a brown recluse spider, or Loxosceles reclusa ... they accidentally become wedged against your skin. What they eat Brown recluses do spin webs, but they don’t use them to trap ...

This spider's bite is much feared because its venom ... Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the insect its name. Black widows are ...