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Spider Feeds Self to Babies
The insect world may have found its ‘Mom of the Year’ in the female Stegodyphus lineatus, a desert spider that feeds herself to her young shortly after they’re hatched. This practice, which is known as matriphagy, has been recorded in spiders before, according to Mor Salomon of the Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control in Yehud-Monosson, Israel.
Read whole article here: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/05/07/mom-year-mother-spider-feeds-self-to-babies/
The insect world may have found its ‘Mom of the Year’ in the female Stegodyphus lineatus, a desert spider that feeds herself to her young shortly after they’re hatched. This practice, which is known as matriphagy, has been recorded in spiders before, according to Mor Salomon of the Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control in Yehud-Monosson, Israel.
Read whole article here: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/05/07/mom-year-mother-spider-feeds-self-to-babies/
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