Researchers at the University of Akron in Ohio conducted the study, hoping to confirm a hunch.
soundas their cue to strike.
Spiders are well known for the variety of methods they use to capture prey.
Two views of the slingshot spider; the the right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip.© Reproduced with permission of The Company of Biologists. Han, S. I. and Blackledge, T. A. (2024)
Butslingshot spiders, also called ray spiders, are especially showy in how they hunt.
So researchers Sarah Han and Todd Blackledge decided to look closer for themselves.
The teams findings werepublishedWednesday in theJournal of Experimental Biology.
Recent studies have explored how spider webs can detect sounds from across a room.
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There’s plenty of other things trying to eat you, though.
