Acceptable Spider?

13 October 2009

Meanwhile, zenicurean alerted me to

Surreal Vegetarian Spider Found — A First by Matt Kaplan at National Geographic

Though the spider does occasionally snack on ant larvæ, the bulk of their diet is plants, Meehan said.

Up-Date (2020:10/06): The original link is no longer valid, but here are articles on the spider in the academic literature:

Herbivory in a spider through exploitation of an ant-plant mutualism by Meehan &aliis in Current Biology v 19 #19 (13 Oct 2009) pp R892–R893

Nutritional Ecology: A First Vegetarian Spider by Duncan E.Jackson in Current Biology v 19 #19 (13 Oct 2009) pp R894–R895

Tags: arachnids, arthropods, spiders

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