This is the Bagheera kiplingi spider, and it is the one and only known species of spider that is a vegetarian. Due to the adaption this spider has made, it can live its life in complete ease. The spider has even eliminated it’s habit of consuming the other gender after mating. The Bagheera kiplingi doesn’t even need webs anymore, so the spider uses its web to care for its young. Though the spider still has to deal with ants and bugs on the plants as competition.
Bagheera kiplingi, a South American species, lives almost exclusively on leaf buds and is thought to be the only spider of about 40,000 species to have rejected a carnivorous diet.
Instead it has developed a laidback lifestyle based on nutritious wild acacia plants — and has no need to spin a web to catch its prey.
Via: TMO
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