Ballista spider
Species of spider
Ballista spider
The ballista spider is the common name for a recently discovered unnamed species of spider of the genus Propostira. Discovered in 2026 by a team of researchers from Macquarie University led by Ajay Narendra, it was identified in the rainforests of northern Australia. It hunts by weaving a catapult-like snare that launches its prey, the highly aggressive green tree ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), into a primary web – hence its nickname after the ballista, an ancient projectile weapon.
Read on Wikipedia · Image Ajay Narendra, Pranav Joshi, Daniele Liprandi, Gregory J Anderson, Jonas Wolff, CC BY 4.0
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