As spiders cannot ingest solids ... these specialists use one of three main tactics to grasp prey: the pincer, the fork, and the key. Each strategy is associated with a particular mouthpart ...

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Soon after, a larger crab strutted right up to where I was sitting, throwing up its pincers in exasperation or as if to mime, “What are you looking at? Move!” before bustling past. I list off ...

Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey.

These insects and arachnids might startle you or send shivers down your spine, but there's no need to worry about these bugs—not too much, anyway.

And never, ever get too close to the beast's pinchers. That will mess you up faster than anything. If the spider stops and pumps its thorax in the air, get rolling, because lava geysers will begin ...

Staying at long range is more likely to trigger a sequence of pincer slams while moving toward your position that culminates in an overhead slam. However, this is easily avoidable, and we ...

Pseudoscorpions are essentially spiders wearing a scorpion costume ... This cave dweller is the size of a sesame seed, bar its pincers. L. boulderica was discovered by a researcher and his family in ...

The toxin in a pseudoscorpion’s pincers paralyzes prey - and can also neutralize dangerous ... These substances are typically complex compounds of many different toxins. “There are spiders whose venom ...