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A net held by six legs. This still photograph introduces Deinopis spinosa. It hunts with a small net held between its front three pairs of legs.

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Take the mesh to the prey. The spider stretches its woolly silk net and actively casts it over prey. Its legs position the capture surface during the strike.

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Seeing helps guide the strike. Researchers temporarily covered the enlarged eyes.

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Seeing helps guide the strike. The spiders then struggled to catch walking prey, showing how vision supports nocturnal hunting.

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Area changes with both dimensions. In our schematic, stretching increases mesh width and height. That enlarges its coverage, while cast reach sets how far it travels.

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Separate the model from the animal. This simplified cast isolates reach, stretch, and settling. It does not reproduce the spider's sensing, leg mechanics, or three-dimensional strike.

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Which net covers more space?. Keep reach and settling fixed; change net stretch, replay both settings, and compare mesh width during the cast.