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Spiders could eat all humans on Earth in one year
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:51 pm
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Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than three-quarters of bedrooms. There's a good chance at least one spider is staring at you right now, sizing you up from a darkened corner of the room, eight eyes glistening in the shadows.
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Martin Nyffeler and Klaus Birkhofer published their estimate in the journal the Science of Nature earlier this month, and the number they arrived at is frankly shocking: The world's spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey in any given year. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all 7 billion humans on the planet combined, who the authors note consume about 400 million tons of meat and fish each year.
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Or, for a slightly more disturbing comparison: The total biomass of all adult humans on Earth is estimated to be 287 million tons. Even if you tack on another 70 million-ish tons to account for the weight of kids, it's still not equal to the total amount of food eaten by spiders in a given year, exceeding the total weight of humanity.
In other words, spiders could eat all of us and still be hungry.
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If you gathered up all the spiders on the planet and placed them on a very large scale, together they'd weigh about 25 million tons, according to Nyffler and Birkhofer. For comparison, the Titanic weighed about 52,000 tons. The mass of every spider on Earth today, in other words, is equivalent to 478 Titanics
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:52 pm to JOJO Hammer
The frick is with that pic?
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:52 pm to JOJO Hammer
But I bet we could eat more spiders.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:54 pm to JOJO Hammer
I figured Charlotte was a lesbian.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:55 pm to JOJO Hammer
I see a spider every once in a while but on the whole they seem to be pretty reclusive.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:55 pm to fr33manator
After what came out of her mouth, she can keep dem panties on
Posted on 3/28/17 at 12:58 pm to SG_Geaux
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The frick is with that pic?
Looks like one hellva lucky spider to me.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 1:10 pm to JOJO Hammer
I don't believe any of that shite. Spiders eat more meat than humans in a year? bullshite.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 1:17 pm to PrimeTime Money
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I don't believe any of that shite.
That's because it's ridiculous.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 1:52 pm to JOJO Hammer
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There's a good chance at least one spider is staring at you right now, sizing you up from a darkened corner of the room, eight eyes glistening in the shadows.
That doesn't really bother me. It's the damn ducks that keep me on edge. I know they're out there, somewhere, and they're watching me.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 1:54 pm to Sao
quote:What you did here i seent it.
seem to be pretty reclusive.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 1:59 pm to JOJO Hammer
If we could just train them to eat Progs, Libs and media members I'd be ok with giving Europe to the Spiders.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 2:01 pm to JOJO Hammer
check out freak spider dog prank
Posted on 3/28/17 at 2:03 pm to JOJO Hammer
Now, for those who want to "kill them all with fire" imagine what would happen to all that biomass if they WOULDNT eat all that every year.
Thats 400million-800million extra tons of bug/pests you would have around your houses.
Thats 400million-800million extra tons of bug/pests you would have around your houses.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 2:06 pm to PrimeTime Money
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I don't believe any of that shite. Spiders eat more meat than humans in a year? bullshite.
Would you believe that Ants make up 20% of all terrestrial animal biomass on the planet?
Posted on 3/28/17 at 3:28 pm to Nado Jenkins83
This post was edited on 3/28/17 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 3/28/17 at 3:36 pm to SundayFunday
quote:Yes. There are more ants in one square mile of the rain forest than there are humans on earth.
Would you believe that Ants make up 20% of all terrestrial animal biomass on the planet?
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