Think that all spiders are mean, evil looking meat eaters? Well, you have just being proven to be wrong!
Scientists who have being studying a tropical jumping spider, the Bagheera kiplingi, in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Costa Rica between 2001 and 2008 have made an amazing discovery. This “utterly surreal” spider’s diet consists almost completely of plant buds, although it has being found to feed on ant larvae on rare occasions. This is the first specie of spider out of the 40,000 species that have being identified to be a “vegetarian”. The amazing thing is, this spider has adapted the mechanisms possible to digest the tough fibers of plants which other spiders can not.
You can read more about these wonderous spiders here and here. The world is simply full of wonders to be discovered!
