The carefully excavated dwelling of the Mason Spider (Mygale Coementaria) aka called trapdoor spiders. Mygalomorph spiders construct burrows several inches deep, the nest is lined with spun silk with a carefully camouflaged cork-like trapdoor made of soil, vegetation and silk. With the door open just a crack, they wait for an unsuspecting cricket or beetle to wander past. The spider leaps out at great speed, seizes its prey and hauls it back into the burrow to be devoured, all in a fraction of a second.

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