Way Off facts · 🦁 Animals
How much prey do all the world's spiders eat per year, in tonnes?
500 million
tonnes
500,000,000 exactly, give or take
More meat than all of humanity eats. By tonnage, spiders are Earth's top predator.SOURCEThe Science of Nature, 2017
Scale check: 500 million is roughly about the population of Japan.
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