Bagheera Kiplingi, the first spider found by humans to eat primarily plant material. Image by R.L. Curry.
This species of spider has used mimicry and other defenses to take advantage of a special relationship between acacia plants and ants to obtain food and has become the first spider known to humans to subsist mainly on plant material.
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