Wednesday, December 06, 2017

If spiders worked together, they could eat all humans in a year

If you are not already an arachnophobe this piece in the NY Post may turn you into one.


Researchers have found that spiders across the globe consume between 440.9 and 881.8 million tons of prey in any given year. They consume at least as much meat as all seven billion humans on the planet combined, who the authors note consume about 400 million tonnes of meat and fish each year.
In other words, spiders could eat all of us and still be hungry.

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