• Great news fellow arachnophobes, there are so many spiders that, in theory, they could eat every single person on Earth in just one year!
• According to data collected by European biologists Klaus Birkhofer and Martin Nyffler, spiders eat “400-800 million metric tons of prey” every single year, including insects, birds, lizards and small mammals (!!!).
• Terrifying? Sure, but there’s more. According to the Washington Post, the total biomass of all humans on Earth is approximately 357 million tons!
• What’s more, according to a study by Peer J, 100% of homes tested in North Carolina were found to have spiders.
• I’m not saying that spiders will band together to consume their human overlords, but I’m not saying it won’t happen either. I’ll be in the bunker if you’re looking for me.
• The horrifying findings were published earlier this month in the Science of Nature journal.

Read more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/28/spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year/?utm_term=.b6a79e2128a4

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/28/15090046/spiders-eat-humans-consume-washington-post-study

http://www.inquisitr.com/4101914/in-just-one-year-spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-single-human-on-earth/

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