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Herbivorous spider, Bagheera kiplingi, on swollen spines of acacia ... consuming Beltian body

©2008 Robert L. Curry

Herbivory in ant-acacia jumping spiders

Videos accompanying Meehan et al. (2009)

• Adult female harvesting Beltian body
• Adult male harvesting Beltian body
• Spider evading ants
• Spider feeding on extrafloral nectar
• Spider stealing ant larva from worker

Press coverage of our co-discovery

 
In 2007, my student Chis Meehan (in the field, right) and I discovered herbivorous behavior in the spider Bagheera kiplingi. We later learned that the same discovery had been made independently in Costa Rica in 2001 by Eric J. Olson. We jointly published the discovery in 2009 (in Current Biology).

Recent publications from this research:

• Meehan, C. J., E. J. Olson, M. W. Reudink, T. K. Kyser, and R. L. Curry. 2009. Herbivory in a spider through exploitation of an ant-plant mutualism. Current Biology 19:R892-R893.  PDF reprint

• Supplemental data for Meehan et al. (2009) including links to video files

Page created by R. L. Curry. Last updated: Wed, Nov 4, 2009