It seems that he has studied far and wide, but every day, nature never ceases to present new surprises. A new species of large arachnids discovered in the caves of Mexico! This story starts back in 2013, when during an expedition in the mountains of Sierra de las Cacachilas two …
Read More »
Web allows arthropods to cross the river and create an impressive network size traps. YouTube channel BBC Earth published a video that shows how spider Darwin (Caerostris darwini) produces a multimeter “bridges” from the web. This species of spider is able to produce a long thread that is picked up …
Read More »
The photographer showed an unexpected side of spiders. Even spiders are sometimes beautiful and (forgive us, arachnophobe) nice.
Read More »
Scientists shocked theory, how many spiders can eat all the people on the planet.European scientists Martin Nyffeler and Klaus Birkhoffer could count how many spiders can destroy humanity. Thus, according to estimates of biologists, spiders can eat all the people on the planet in just one year. According to their …
Read More »
People across the planet eat 400 million tons of meat and fish annually, which is comparable to the biomass ingested by the spiders. Zoologists from the University of Basel in Switzerland and of Lund University in Sweden found that spiders kill hundreds of millions of insects and other small animals …
Read More »
Spiders eat in a year than whales.Zoologists have estimated the total mass of the murdered and eaten by spiders living beings to 800 million tonnes annually. The population density of spiders comes to 1 thousand individuals per 1 sq. m. Their total weight, according to researchers, is 25 million tons. …
Read More »