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🕷️ A spider in Queensland hunts with a spring-loaded catapult. It builds a cone-shaped silk snare, an ant bites the trigger, and the trap flings the ant 30 cm into the air, straight into the spider's web, at about 140 g. The ballista spider (genus Propostira, species not yet named) is 5 mm long […]