Black widow spiders can remember their prey Shutterstock/Jay Ondreicka
Some web-building spiders can form memories of the prey they catch, and the rare the ability has now been documented in black widows, who can retain information about their prey’s size and the location where it was ensnared in the spider’s web.
After ’s previous research revealed that , he and his colleagues were eager to see if the black-and-red arachnids could form memories of their meals.
Sergi, who was at the University of Wisconsin at the time of…
