OK, so it was on a trip to a place in the Kandakhal Valley, Uttarakhand that I saw this spider spin a web to catch an insect and then the next moment as soon as beetle got entangled in its web, the spider jumped on to the poor creature and then literally trussed it up, nay engulfed it with a thick coat of a silken stuff. In no time the beetle was encased in a web so tight that it looked like a mummy.
If you look closely at the rear of the spider you might get to see the spinneret from which the spider extrudes its silk. You will also see something that looks like a thick stream of white stuff pouring out! The speed with which the spider worked was simply amazing! The spider had in not time consumed the beetle that it had trussed up. When I went to check for the spider and its web, there was nothing! It was as if the spider had never existed!
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