ScienceAlert - This footage of a velvet worm shooting foot-long strands of slime to immobilise its prey is pretty incredible. After trapping its victim, the velvet worm injects it with enzymes and
![How velvet worms spray slime - and kill prey - over incredible distances: High-speed video reveals gluey weapon works like an untended HOSE | Daily Mail Online How velvet worms spray slime - and kill prey - over incredible distances: High-speed video reveals gluey weapon works like an untended HOSE | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/17/26BD557500000578-0-image-m-6_1426611643973.jpg)
How velvet worms spray slime - and kill prey - over incredible distances: High-speed video reveals gluey weapon works like an untended HOSE | Daily Mail Online
![Jack, here is a many legged cutie. This is an onychophora or velvet worm a panarthropod. They shoot glue to stick prey to the ground then waddle over and suck out their Jack, here is a many legged cutie. This is an onychophora or velvet worm a panarthropod. They shoot glue to stick prey to the ground then waddle over and suck out their](https://i.redd.it/8kp5h1wy5nw41.jpg)
Jack, here is a many legged cutie. This is an onychophora or velvet worm a panarthropod. They shoot glue to stick prey to the ground then waddle over and suck out their
![How velvet worms spray slime - and kill prey - over incredible distances: High-speed video reveals gluey weapon works like an untended HOSE | Daily Mail Online How velvet worms spray slime - and kill prey - over incredible distances: High-speed video reveals gluey weapon works like an untended HOSE | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/scaled/2015/03/17/26BE558500000578-0-image-a-55_1426615064529.jpg)
How velvet worms spray slime - and kill prey - over incredible distances: High-speed video reveals gluey weapon works like an untended HOSE | Daily Mail Online
![4 pics] Velvet Worms are suggested to locate their prey through smell or air motion. Once located, the Velvet Worm reveals two limbs which act as glue turrets that shoot a slime-rich 4 pics] Velvet Worms are suggested to locate their prey through smell or air motion. Once located, the Velvet Worm reveals two limbs which act as glue turrets that shoot a slime-rich](https://preview.redd.it/4-pics-velvet-worms-are-suggested-to-locate-their-prey-v0-6e5xhg6hwqg81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2c6e2142850eff24f93c6fa1a81e24b7b6bb6a4c)
4 pics] Velvet Worms are suggested to locate their prey through smell or air motion. Once located, the Velvet Worm reveals two limbs which act as glue turrets that shoot a slime-rich
![Slime-shooting velvet worms could inspire better plastics and glues | Headline Science - American Chemical Society Slime-shooting velvet worms could inspire better plastics and glues | Headline Science - American Chemical Society](https://www.acs.org/pressroom/headline-science/velvet-worm-slime/_jcr_content/image.scale.small.jpg/1697567033818.jpg)
Slime-shooting velvet worms could inspire better plastics and glues | Headline Science - American Chemical Society
![Sabrina Imbler on X: "ahh, the velvet worm! a lil buddy who is so cute and tubby until it squirts glue-like slime out of its oral papillae https://t.co/Ixrkwd1Psq" / X Sabrina Imbler on X: "ahh, the velvet worm! a lil buddy who is so cute and tubby until it squirts glue-like slime out of its oral papillae https://t.co/Ixrkwd1Psq" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_is4oWXsAAzI_X.jpg)
Sabrina Imbler on X: "ahh, the velvet worm! a lil buddy who is so cute and tubby until it squirts glue-like slime out of its oral papillae https://t.co/Ixrkwd1Psq" / X
![Nanoparticles from the secretion of velvet worms form recyclable polymer fibres | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Nanoparticles from the secretion of velvet worms form recyclable polymer fibres | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft](https://www.mpg.de/11645588/original-1508164866.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzQxLCJmaWxlX2V4dGVuc2lvbiI6ImpwZyIsIm9ial9pZCI6MTE2NDU1ODh9--15f259cd401d4e43b0b55fdf32a42715d2239a28)