Few things can make you go “ewww” like the phrase “regurgitation of digestive fluids” but that’s exactly how one spider species goes about tackling its prey. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Forget fancy injections of venom, the best way for a feather-legged lace weaver ( Uloborus plumipes ) to eat its meal is simply to throw up all over it.

Uloboridae spiders to which the feather-legged lace weaver belongs, are famous for wrapping their prey in silk, sometimes hundreds of meters worth, and then adding their own special soup of digestive fluids all over the silk-wrapped prey package. However this is unusual in the spider world as most species use venom found in their mouthparts rather than toxic tummy juice.

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