A vegetarian spider

“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the, uh, Seed.

This actually got me thinking: are there any vegetarian spiders? Turns out: sort of. Bagheera kiplingi gets most (not all) of its food from acacia leaf tips, supplementing it with ant larvae or nectar. And now I know.

2 October 2018

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