The Animal Question

For Halloween, a helping hand...

via www.notmartha.org

An awesomely awful concoction from "not martha." Go over there to her recipe and enjoy, if you're inclined to eat meatloaf, or just gape in horror if you're veg.

This spider's a vegetarian!

From Wired:

Found in Central America, the order-defying jumping spider eats nutrient-rich structures called Beltian bodies, which are found on the tips of Acacia trees. Trees produce the bodies to feed ants that defend them, which is a textbook example of what’s called co-evolutionary mutalism, and one that B. kiplingi has evolved to exploit.

via www.wired.com

This is the world's first known vegetarian spider. The males also take part in parental care, another arachnid rarity.