The Bagheera Kiplingi can’t just wander into a Whole Foods and grab something yummy and green you know, they have to hunt their veggies with all the wit and cunning of a ninja on a deadline.

Bagheera Kiplingi, the world's first vegetarian spider, shows how much creatures can change to exploit available resources. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

Now, scientists have found that a small Central American jumping spider has a uniquely different diet: the species Bagheera kiplingi feeds predominantly on plant food. Skip to main content.

The eight-legged vegetarian, called Bagheera kiplingi, lives in Central America, and is now considered a rarity among the world's 40,000 or so spider species, most of which are strictly predators ...

Bagheera kiplingi, which is found in Central America and Mexico, bucks the meat-eating trend by feasting on acacia plants. The research is published in the journal Current Biology. The herbivorous ...

Each of the world’s 40,000 spider species survives by hunting and killing — except, that is, for Bagheera kiplingi, the world’s first vegetarian arachnid. Found in Central America, the order ...

image: Adult female Bagheera kiplingi eats Beltian body harvested from ant-acacia view more . Credit: R. L. Curry. There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have ...

The jumping spider, Bagheera kiplingi, which lives in Central America, has been found to steal the nectar-filled leaf tips of acacia bushes, called Beltian bodies, which are jealously guarded by a ...

There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now ...

Unlike the 40,000 other known spider species that are thought to be mainly carnivorous, the Bagheera kiplingi of Central America has been observed feeding on the leaf tips of an acacia plant ...