The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and twigs that they use to ambush and capture prey. These burrows are lined ...

Trapdoor spiders, as their name suggests, are burrowing spiders. They erect multiple “trapdoor” entrances to their burrows and cover them with a silk-weave in an effort to ambush small insect ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

Beneath Porongurup Range National Park’s tall karri eucalypts, little holes the size of five and 10 cent pieces are the entrances to native trapdoor spider burrows. There’s another kind of burrow here ...

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