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Science summary: Fish eating Spiders.
Spiders are viewed as predator of insects. Zoologists from Australia and Switzerland have published a study that #|shows spider all over the world prey on fish (Science Daily). Viewed by ecologists of insect, researchers are aware that spiders are not exclusively insectivorous. Larger sized species increase their #|diet by catching small fish, says a zoologist and spider expert Martin Nyffeler from university of Basel. Also Switzerland and Bradley Pusey from university of Western Australia gave the same opinion (Science Daily). Fish predation by spider has been revealed from all #|continents. Most events have been documented in #|North America, especially in Wetlands Florida. To catch its prey, the spider will anchor its hind legs to a plant. Then, the fish will be dragged to a dry place before the feeding process can start (Science daily). The study in the journal “PLOS ONE” says that more than 80 incidents of spider killing fish across the world. The study says that 18 different spider have been observed catching fish in the wild (Phys.org). Some spiders also catching other small vertebrates like: lizards, frogs, snakes, bats, rats, and mice (Phy.org). Spiders that prey on fish are likely restricted to areas where spiders have #|easy access to small fish (Phy.org).

References:

#|University of Basel. "Fish-eating spiders discovered in all parts of the world." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 June 2014. .

Liley, Peter. "Fish-eating spiders discovered in all arts of the world." Phys.org. Phys.org, 18 June 2014. http://phys.org/news/2014-06-fish-eating-spiders-world.html

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