Crab Spider (IMAGE)

National University of Singapore

Crab Spider

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Although the crab spider Thomisus nepenthiphilus 'steals' prey from its host, the slender pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis, a study by ecologists from the National University of Singapore found that the net effect of this 'burglary' can still be beneficial to the pitcher plant as it gets the residual nutrients from the prey discarded by the crab spider.

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Lam Weng Ngai, NUS Department of Biological Sciences

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