Spiders consume more meat than all humans combined: Study

A new study by Sweden and Switzerland-based researchers claims that spiders globally wipe out estimated 400-800 million tons of prey whereas humans consume around 400 million tons of meat every year. Spiders, whose prey includes more than 90% insects and springtails, has 45,000 species, 1,000 per square meter population density and a combined weight of around 25 million tons.