Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Along Came a Spider Part V

A vegetarian spider has been found in Central America- the first such spider out of 40 thousand species.  It retains many hunting instincts, but uses them only to outwit the ants that guard flowers- its favorite food.  It sometimes eats ant larvae, but even so, Bagheera kiplingi has a plant-based diet- a first for a spider.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com
/news/2009/10/091012-vegetarian-spider.html

-Brown Rhino

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