Newly hatched spiders eat one another if meals is scarce
Jeffrey Harvey, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Child cabinet spiders that may’t discover sufficient meals resort to devouring their siblings.
Cannibalism has been noticed in a number of spider species, but it surely sometimes includes grownup females consuming males throughout or after intercourse. In a single species, the black lace-weaver, moms enable themselves to be consumed by their very own offspring within the final sacrifice.
Now, Jeffrey Harvey on the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and his colleagues have found {that a} frequent species known as Steatoda grossa engages in a special …