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A tale of two predators: The crab spider and a pitcher plant
Crab spider uses pitcher plant's trapping mechanism to catch food, while giving host nutrients
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Jose Hong
In the wild, one would expect two predators to compete with each other for food, but research has shown that a spider and the carnivorous plant it calls home have made a pact.
Ecologists from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Science have conducted research on a poorly studied species of spider and how it uses the trapping mechanism of a pitcher plant to catch food, all the while also giving the plant nutrients.
