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Cal King say: "Spider meal specialist Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel, Switzerland decided, hey, let’s try and estimate the total weight of all of the food spiders around the world eat per year. Some data crunching resulted in a number so bafflingly high you’ll either squirm or thank the spiders for keeping us safe from all the other bugs. Maybe both.
That number: The world’s estimated 25 million metric tons of spiders eat between 300 and 800 million metric tons of food per year, according to estimates published today in the very silly-sounding journal The Science of Nature. (That almost feels like calling something the Ferrari of Lamborghinis in academic journal speak). That food consists mainly of insects, little non-insect bugs called springtails...."
It must chap your hide that they eat so many bugs. Perhaps you love bugs.
http://gizmodo.com/the-amount-of-food-sp...
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masud say: i do not know
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Elaine M say: Heck, they haven't come up with anything to stop stupidity in humans.
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Bulldog Drummond say: I'm a scientist, and I have never tried to benifit anybody. I don't even believe in benifits. I don't even think that word is in the dictionary.
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ALEX say: Spiders are good thing you fvcking idiot. They eat bugs.
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oikoσ say: It does. That's why we don't waste time destroying natural pest controls just because you are afraid of them.
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Aquarius 1011 say: Rid earth of all spiders, and we'd be up to our knees in insects, including the annoying ones. So, a better question would be - Why haven't scientists come up with a way to kill all annoying insects on earth yet?
Examples are fleas, ticks, horseflies, dustmites, lice, mosquitoes, bedbugs, and cockroaches.
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Tom S say: Spiders benefit us.
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say: Since they invented the shoe and the hammer, they do not see there being a problem. Besides without spiders we would be inundated with many more insects. If your house does not have house flies or other bugs inside it, then there is NO SPIDERS TO BUG YOU. Funny how that works.
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