{"id":123429,"date":"2021-06-04T16:56:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/research-spiders-feast-on-400-800-million-tons-of-insects-every-year"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:56:46","slug":"research-spiders-feast-on-400-800-million-tons-of-insects-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/research-spiders-feast-on-400-800-million-tons-of-insects-every-year","title":{"rendered":"Research: Spiders feast on 400\u2013800 million tons of insects every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-spiders-feast-on-400-800-million-tons-of-insects-every-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next time you see a spider crawling around your house, look at the bright side. It\u2019s probably feasting on a bunch of other insects and providing you with free pest control.<\/p>\n<p>A new study released on Tuesday says that spiders eat an estimated 400 to 800 million metric tons of insects every year<a href=\" https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00114-017-1440-1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the entire human population consumes about 400 million tons of meat and fish every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you see a spider crawling around your house, look at the bright side. It\u2019s probably feasting on a bunch of other insects and providing you with free pest control. A new study released on Tuesday says that spiders eat an estimated 400 to 800 million metric tons of insects every year. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}