Ballistic high-powered spider webs snare ants / Curr. Biol., June 22, 2026 (Vol. 36, Issue 12)
We report here a spring-actuated snare in the Australian ballista spider that is triggered by the defensive behavior of a specific prey, the green tree ants. The architecture of the snare enables exceptionally high instantaneous power amplification by storing elastic energy and rapidly releasing it. Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/f.... A. Narendra, P. Joshi, D. Liprandi, G.J. Anderson, and J.O. Wolff (2026). Ballistic high-powered spider webs overcome dangerous prey defenses. Curr. Biol. 36. And read more great research at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home.
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