First 'mainly vegetarian' spider described
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
The 40,000 or so spiders that have been described are generally known as strict predators, trapping their prey in elaborate webs or hunting them down directly. But researchers have found one notable exception to this rule: The neotropical jumping spider known as Bagheera kiplingi represents the first instance known to science of a spider that dines primarily on vegetarian fare, according to a report published online on 12 October in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication...