These spiders live all over the world, and their plant-eating behavior has been observed on every continent except for Antarctica (where the spiders don't live) and Europe (where they live but ...

About 40 percent live in the neotropics — the ... Crawly & Incredible Spiders] Most bat prey of spiders are small or juvenile insect-eating bats, and usually are among the most common bat ...

They live in burrows and construct trapdoors attached ... ant mimicry developed to protect the spider from predators that eat spiders. When a jumping spider finds potential prey, it might stalk ...

In order to eat their elders, baby spiders shoot enzymes ... Researchers noted that this behavior wasn’t surprising since these spiders — who live together as one massive cannibalistic family ...

And that paper is chock-full of pictures to prove it. Scientists had previously believed that spiders consumed live insects or other arthropods almost exclusively, but more recent research has ...

“This illustration gave origin to the name of the genus and the popular name birdeater spiders,” Fukushima told Live Science in ... saying that a spider eating a bird was a female fantasy.

The search turned up 52 reports of bat-eating spiders, less than half of which had been published before. The authors report that bat-munching spiders live on every continent except Antarctica.

But some arachnids have more adventurous tastes — they can eat snakes up to 30 times their ... Australia and the United States, but these spiders live on every continent except Antarctica.

"This illustration gave origin to the name of the genus and the popular name birdeater spiders," Fukushima told Live Science in an ... saying that a spider eating a bird was a female fantasy.

Spider-eat-bat world Accidental deaths of bats in spiderwebs ... Approximately 90 percent of known bat-catching spiders live in the warmer areas of the globe, in the third of the Earth surrounding ...

[See Photos of Bat-Eating Spiders in Action] Giant webs Approximately 90 percent of known bat-catching spiders live in the warmer areas of the globe, in the third of the Earth surrounding the equator.