Pill bugs reflexively close ... This concept may remind readers somewhat grimly of grippers made from dead spiders, but researchers emphasize that we have an imperative to not mistreat these ...

A Natural History of the World's Spiders" (Princeton University Press, 2024), author Ximena Nelson looks at the three species with unusual diets — plants, blood and pill bugs. Scientific name ...

The spider spends its days down there. As the last rays of the sun die out, it rises … to wait, motionless. Until some unsuspecting creature happens by, like this pill bug. Every step it takes creates ...