Un día mundial para las arañas
Ecomandanga,
Además de inspirar cómics y películas, las arañas son esenciales para mantener la salud de los ecosistemas terrestres. Su…
Además de inspirar cómics y películas, las arañas son esenciales para mantener la salud de los ecosistemas terrestres. Su…
Thanks to those who sent in photos. We have anough to last about a week. Today we have a photo-and-text story from Athayde…
After reaching maturity, male web-building spiders leave their webs in search of a mate. The real challenge occurs once the…
European garden spiders build smaller, fuller webs in cities where there are fewer, smaller insects to eat.
Disclaimer: chiggers are not actually insects as the title suggests, but arachnids, and insects are not a kingdom, but a class.
There's good news if you're into weird things happening on moons. Bad news if you were a big fan of the Larsen C ice shelf.
Elizabeth Pennisi in Science: Consider the spider. True, they can be terrifying to some squeamish humans—they all have venom…
The low-end estimate for how much the world's spiders eat is some 400 million tons of mostly insects and springtails. -…
Click here to read in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer en españolIn the past few weeks, a peculiar congruence of several…
The next time you see a spider, maybe let it know you appreciate its hard work by leaving it be.
The science research burning up the blog-o-sphere today is a fun one: Martin Nyffeler and Klaus Birkhofer, a pair of European…
A Swiss scientist identifies the top predator in the world in a new study.Read More
World’s spiders eat more animals than all humans put…
But don't freak out: The 400 to 800 million tons of meat that eight-legged insects put away includes pests like mosquitoes and…
For comparison, whales eat up to 500 million tons annually
Spiders eat much more than humans.
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Bombs away! • Rate of carbon dioxide growth in past decade 100 to 200 times what Earth…
According to a new study published in The Science of Nature, the annual prey kill of the global spider community is in the…
PRÉSENTES sur Terre depuis au moins 305 millions d’années, les araignées font partie des prédateurs les plus communs et les…
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Gli aracnidi sono i principali predatori di insetti al mondo, superando di gran lunga gli uccelli ed altri animali. Sono così…
Spinnen halten die weltweiten Insektenbestände unter Kontrolle. Das verdeutlichen Berechnungen von Basler und schwedischen…
Some larger types might opt for a lizard or even a frog, but the great majority of spiders love to eat insects. We mean really…