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Article: SPIDERS TASTY TO EACH OTHER.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 14, 1993
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Byline: ALEXANDRA WITZE - Dallas Morning News
It's a spider-eat-spider world out there.
Just ask James Wagner, an entomology graduate student at the University of Kentucky. Hundreds of tiny young wolf spiders gobble each other up in his laboratory every year.
Wagner hasn't actually seen most of the cannibalism. But when he and his adviser, David Wise, crowd a bunch of baby spiders into a small space, their numbers mysteriously dwindle, the researchers reported in Madison last month at a meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
Spiders are munching each other outside of the lab as well, recent field studies have confirmed.
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