Spiders in the Uloboridae family wrap their prey in copious amounts of silk and cover them in toxic fluids before starting their feast.
Fuzzy, long-legged spiders may attack their prey with an ingeniously gruesome tactic — by covering them in toxic digestive fluids.
"It really looks like there's something in these digestive fluids that kill the prey,” which could be the toxins found in this study, co-author Giulia Zancolli, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, told Live Science. But spiders in the Uloboridae family, such as feather-legged lace weavers, wrap their victims in a copious amount of silk — sometimes more than hundreds of feet of it — before covering them in fluids and eating them.While scientists already knew about this unusual behavior, they weren't exactly sure how the victims actually died, the new paper said.
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