Bat-Eating spiders are more common than you think.
They exist on every continent except for Antarctica and even there they might be lurking in an ice cave.
Waiting. Patiently. For a bat to call Antarctica home.
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The picture above is a Rhinolophus cornutus orii resting in a silk blanket provided by a female Nephila pilipes.
Amami-Oshima Island, Japan.
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A formerly happy juvenile proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) entangled in web of Nephila clavipes.
This was photographed in a palm swamp forest near Madre de Dios, Peru.
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A Guatemala bat entangled in web of a female Nephila clavipes.
This bat used to live in the tropical rainforest along the Rio Dulce River Canyon near Livingston, Guatemala.
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Meanwhile, in Australia, a Rhinolophoidea becomes a liquid lunch for a Nephila pilipes at the top of the Cockatoo Hill near Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.
You can tell this because the spider has it's fangs embedded in the bat and is sucking out the liquid insides of this bota bag of a bat.
Honestly, I love bats and spiders.
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This bat is still alive.
This![Nephilengys cruentata]()
is creeping toward the bat to finish the job.
It has to wrap the bat securely and inject venom to paralyze the bat and turn it's insides into liquid so it can feast.
All the while this is happening in someone's living room at Nisela Lodge, in Swaziland.
I wonder if the hotel charges extra for the bat-eating spider room?
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In Hong Kong you can find Nephila pilipes snacking on a vespertilionid bat.
Lovely plumage.
Aberdeen Country Park, Hong Kong.
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Not all bat-eating spiders look scary.
This female Avicularia urticans spider with it's cuddly fur looks so cute feeding on a greater sacrilicious-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) on the side of a palm tree near the Rio Yarapa, Peru.
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In nature, the color yellow is generally associated with danger.
Think of wasps, hornets and this mean-looking Argiope savignyi.
I think the proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) would agree.
You can see this spider at the La Selva Biological Station, northern Costa Rica.
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This Myotis bat has seconds to live before Nephila clavipes delivers a rather fatal bite.
Cost Rica seems to have a lot of bad-assed spiders.
This one is in La Sirena, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica.
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What a tangled web we weave when we practice to feast on die fledermaus.
A very dead Centronycteris centralis) entangled in an orb-web in Belize.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/27946-bat-eating-spiders-photos.html
They exist on every continent except for Antarctica and even there they might be lurking in an ice cave.
Waiting. Patiently. For a bat to call Antarctica home.
The picture above is a Rhinolophus cornutus orii resting in a silk blanket provided by a female Nephila pilipes.
Amami-Oshima Island, Japan.
A formerly happy juvenile proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) entangled in web of Nephila clavipes.
This was photographed in a palm swamp forest near Madre de Dios, Peru.
A Guatemala bat entangled in web of a female Nephila clavipes.
This bat used to live in the tropical rainforest along the Rio Dulce River Canyon near Livingston, Guatemala.
Meanwhile, in Australia, a Rhinolophoidea becomes a liquid lunch for a Nephila pilipes at the top of the Cockatoo Hill near Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.
You can tell this because the spider has it's fangs embedded in the bat and is sucking out the liquid insides of this bota bag of a bat.
Honestly, I love bats and spiders.
This bat is still alive.
This
It has to wrap the bat securely and inject venom to paralyze the bat and turn it's insides into liquid so it can feast.
All the while this is happening in someone's living room at Nisela Lodge, in Swaziland.
I wonder if the hotel charges extra for the bat-eating spider room?
In Hong Kong you can find Nephila pilipes snacking on a vespertilionid bat.
Lovely plumage.
Aberdeen Country Park, Hong Kong.
Not all bat-eating spiders look scary.
This female Avicularia urticans spider with it's cuddly fur looks so cute feeding on a greater sacrilicious-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) on the side of a palm tree near the Rio Yarapa, Peru.
In nature, the color yellow is generally associated with danger.
Think of wasps, hornets and this mean-looking Argiope savignyi.
I think the proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) would agree.
You can see this spider at the La Selva Biological Station, northern Costa Rica.
This Myotis bat has seconds to live before Nephila clavipes delivers a rather fatal bite.
Cost Rica seems to have a lot of bad-assed spiders.
This one is in La Sirena, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica.
What a tangled web we weave when we practice to feast on die fledermaus.
A very dead Centronycteris centralis) entangled in an orb-web in Belize.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/27946-bat-eating-spiders-photos.html