DESCRIPTION
Very few people realize just how beneficial spiders really are. According to a
study of spiders initiated in England and Holland, there are 131 spiders per square
meter, most of which are very small.
But, here’s the interesting part: If you average out the actual weight of the “bug juice”
consumed by these spiders, then multiply that by the number of square meters in the world
where spiders live, you come up with an astonishing figure. Spiders of the world consume
over 1,870,000,000 lbs. of bug food PER DAY!!
If we say that the average human weighs 150 lbs., then spiders eat the equivalent weight
of over 12,400,000 people PER DAY!!! Now, imagine if spiders (and other beneficial
creatures, like bats) went on a hunger strike for a week! All those bugs wouldn’t get eaten!
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