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what spider ambushes its prey?
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The trapdoor spider. Click here for more information about the trapdoor spider.
Spiders have loads of different ways of
catching food, and quite a few could be called ambush. Here are some methods:
- Swinging a blob of sticky stuff on a thread to catch passing moths.
- Stretching a small net over the prey.
- Squirting a jet of sticky stuff over the prey (the male also does this to the female, to avoid being eaten).
- Making a flat sheet of silk, with trip-wires to trap insects walking on it.
- Making a tube of silk sticking out of the ground, hiding inside and waiting for insects to crawl over it, then dragging them inside through a slit.
- Jumping onto prey, like a cat on a mouse (these include zebra spiders, the little black-and-white ones found on walls. They have four enormous eyes on the front which watch you as you move past).
- Suspending sticky blobs just above the ground, so insects walking underneath get stuck and swing into the air.
- Making funnels out of which they pounce.
- Hiding in caves and waiting for hobbits.
- Of course, making "orb-webs", the circular or wedge-shaped spiral webs strung across spaces.
- Trap doors.
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