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Fuzzy, long-legged spiders may attack their prey with an ingeniously gruesome tactic – by covering them in toxic digestive fluids. Unlike most other spiders, featherlegged lace weavers (Uloborus plumipes) don’t have venom-producing glands or a way to inject their prey with toxins through their fangs. Instead, these spiders seem to produce neurotoxins in their gut, which may help explain their unusual hunting strategy of dousing their victims in fluids from their digestive system, researchers have discovered. “It really looks like there’s something in these digestive fluids that kill the prey,” which could be the toxins found in this study, said Giulia Zancolli, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.