"Ants are particularly good creatures for spiders to pretend to be—many animals find ants distasteful or dangerous to eat," ...

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. A fear of insects - entomophobia -is ... The tarantula hawk has been awarded second place on ...

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 ...