Almost all species of spiders are predatory species that prey on other animals, from insects to birds. Among the more than 40,000 species of spiders in the world, a new spider species found is probably the first known to eat plants.
Eight-legged animal that is named Bagheera kiplingi it, living in Central America, especially Mexico and Costa Rica. Vegetarian spider that large body size of a fingernail only adults that prey on acacia leaf tip.
"This is really the first spider known to prey on the plants. He was also the first spider diketahu making plants as main prey," says Christopher Meehan of Villanova University, Pennsylvania, United States who reported the study along with other researchers in the latest edition of the journal Current Biology. He said almost all text books spider nobody ever said there was a spider-eating plants.
In obtaining sufficient food resources he helped guard the role of ants whose lives are also at an acacia tree. The problem with ants which controls acacia, no other herbivores who dare to approach. However, since ants also eat the leaf tip, in addition to nectar, spiders have to do a special strategy.
When hunting prey, the spider must avoid smeut guard by utilizing its web to move up and down. The spider is also building its nest at the base of an old acacia leaves rarely traveled ant.
In addition to prey on the leaf tips, spiders are actually still like the larvae prey on other ants and nectar. When memengsa ant they will pretend to be ants with zig-zag motion.
However, observations made using video recording and chemical analysis showed the spider will still get most of the foods from plants. Populations in Mexico to 90 percent of food from plant tissue and the rest of the ant larvae, nectar, and others. While the population in Costa Rica to obtain 60 percent of food from the leaves of acacia.
"This is really the first spider known to prey on the plants. He was also the first spider diketahu making plants as main prey," says Christopher Meehan of Villanova University, Pennsylvania, United States who reported the study along with other researchers in the latest edition of the journal Current Biology. He said almost all text books spider nobody ever said there was a spider-eating plants.
In obtaining sufficient food resources he helped guard the role of ants whose lives are also at an acacia tree. The problem with ants which controls acacia, no other herbivores who dare to approach. However, since ants also eat the leaf tip, in addition to nectar, spiders have to do a special strategy.
When hunting prey, the spider must avoid smeut guard by utilizing its web to move up and down. The spider is also building its nest at the base of an old acacia leaves rarely traveled ant.
In addition to prey on the leaf tips, spiders are actually still like the larvae prey on other ants and nectar. When memengsa ant they will pretend to be ants with zig-zag motion.
However, observations made using video recording and chemical analysis showed the spider will still get most of the foods from plants. Populations in Mexico to 90 percent of food from plant tissue and the rest of the ant larvae, nectar, and others. While the population in Costa Rica to obtain 60 percent of food from the leaves of acacia.
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