Vegetarian Spider!

[slaneyder]

Researchers have found a rare spider that lives in South and Central America that, literally, is an herbivore. The reason this is so, so cool is that up until recently, it was commonly thought that spiders were physically incapable of living on plants as a primary food source.

Comments

[chaosrah]

How cool!

[caketime]

Bagheera kiplingi- are they fucking kidding me? That name is so fucking lame! D:

p.s. super cool article

[c_yo_yus]

Yeah... Jungle Book reference? Seriously?

[caketime]

I know and that latinification (such a word) of Kipling is just so ... UGHHHH. D:

[davegodfrey]

kiplingi is the correct way of doing it. Adding the suffix -i, or -ia, if the person is female, is how it is done. Frankly as this list demonstrates Bagheera kiplingi is pretty ordinary as names go.

[iheartoothecae]

DAMN PEACENIK HIPPIE SPIDERS
GET A JOB
AND CUT YOUR HAIR

[late_and_tired]

hmmm, do you smell patchouli too?

[fishwindows]

OMG I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

[jibacoil]

That's pretty much the cutest thing ever. :D

[china_kitty]

Whoa! Now that's a first; a spider that eats plants.

[davegodfrey]

But it mugs ants to get them! Which just makes it cooler.