EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
http://scienceblog.com/54887/vampire-jumping-spiders-identify-victims-by-their-antennae/
Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders, also known as vampire spiders, are picky eaters by any standards. Explaining that the arachnid’s environment is swamped with insects, Ximena Nelson from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, says, ‘You can see from the diet when you find them in the field that there is a high number of mosquitoes in what they eat’. And when Robert Jackson investigated their diet further, he found that the spiders were even more selective. The delicacy that E. culicivora prize above all others is female blood-fed Anopheles mosquitoes, which puzzled Nelson.
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Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders, also known as vampire spiders, are picky eaters by any standards. Explaining that the arachnid’s environment is swamped with insects, Ximena Nelson from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, says, ‘You can see from the diet when you find them in the field that there is a high number of mosquitoes in what they eat’. And when Robert Jackson investigated their diet further, he found that the spiders were even more selective. The delicacy that E. culicivora prize above all others is female blood-fed Anopheles mosquitoes, which puzzled Nelson.
(More at the source.)