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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: "Surreal" Vegetarian Spider Found -- A First


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An adult female Bagheera kiplingi, a kind of jumping spider, eats a plant bud from an acacia tree in 2007.

The agile spider is the first out of about 40,000 known spider species to be almost entirely vegetarian, an October 2009 study says.

Photograph by Robert L. Curry