Dustyrose33 1,064 #1 Posted October 24, 2020 Recently I saw on Nat Geo Wild a show involving predatory insects, and one was what I think what's called a spitting spider. I didn't provide a link because I could not find a spider that fit the description of what I saw. This spider (?) located a prey insect and began "shooting in rapid succession" from it's head squirts of venom. It fired many times from each side of it's head with less than a second between each squirt. The prey was hit with no chance of escape or survival. Then the attacker's body was shown to emit a white vapor from it's body similar to smoke seen coming from a gun after being fired. I've never seen anything like that. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HandsomeGorilla 5,740 #2 Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) Scytodes is the genus you're thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytodes Edited October 25, 2020 by HandsomeGorilla 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
khol 2,442 #3 Posted October 25, 2020 Spiders are fascinating animals. 8 legs, multiple eyes. They build these incredible structured webs. Traps and different techniques are used to ambush prey. Heres picture of Scytodes Thoracica ( common spitting spider) ...so cool 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HandsomeGorilla 5,740 #4 Posted October 25, 2020 By the way, their venom really isn't bothersome enough to worry about. They can't quite bite deep enough, I think. They're common and very cool spiders, here. I know of where five are right now at work lol. Their habits and general appearance often lead uneducated people to kill them because they resemble a brown recluse. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
