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

[gunslingers]

oh god they're evolving

[jasonbeast]

Next week, they figure out fire.

[late_and_tired]

This reminds me (somehow?!) of the Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders that are often inserted somehow into any game from Spiderweb Software's shareware games... which I spent many teenage hours playing.

[ankewehner]

*blinks* Writer did not do their homework.

Neither the female eating the male after mating nor weaving webs is universal for all spider species but this one.

[underlankers]

Fascinating. ^.^

I love insects, my favorite animal is one.

[bixa]

Except this is an arachnid...

[_tasty]

HAHAHA

[handsomejin]

I would hate spiders a lot less if they were all like this.

[tilmitt]

Me too!

[scythemantis]

But no spider can eat you, so what's the difference? The "vegetarian" spider can still defend itself with a bite :)

[pikku_gen]

I must've been a fly in my former life. *shudder* I might learn to like veggie spiders.