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Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I like you am still in a euphoric state after learning that the voters rejected the Witch of Benghazi as the next occupant of the White House, and thoroughly enjoyed watching Obama turn over the keys. My German is a little rusty these days, but I believe their word for it is schadenfreude.
Of course the LIEberals have seemingly gone berserk, and it's also enjoyable to watch their meltdown - with bull dyke Rachel Maddow most recently clinching the prize from that idiot Geraldo Rivera from his all time useless show on Al Capone's secret vault that he held for 30 years.
With Trump in office we are now getting some relief from the Al Gore Globull Warming "green" crowd - who endlessly pursued every obscure frog on the planet that might go extinct allegedly because of "humans". Now it turns out that just one species, spiders, cause more "environmental impact" than humans based on just the food alone that they consume. I remember all the noise years ago from the "Save the Whales" crowd, and now it turns out that they too likely consume more than all the humans on the planet.
When you consider all the other species living on the planet, you begin to realize that the LIEberals concern over cow farts that arise over our desire to grill a steak or have a hamburger from time to time gets lost as a drop in the truly awesome amount of farts, urination, and defecation produced by God's living creations on the earth.
Praise Jesus!
Of course the LIEberals have seemingly gone berserk, and it's also enjoyable to watch their meltdown - with bull dyke Rachel Maddow most recently clinching the prize from that idiot Geraldo Rivera from his all time useless show on Al Capone's secret vault that he held for 30 years.
With Trump in office we are now getting some relief from the Al Gore Globull Warming "green" crowd - who endlessly pursued every obscure frog on the planet that might go extinct allegedly because of "humans". Now it turns out that just one species, spiders, cause more "environmental impact" than humans based on just the food alone that they consume. I remember all the noise years ago from the "Save the Whales" crowd, and now it turns out that they too likely consume more than all the humans on the planet.
When you consider all the other species living on the planet, you begin to realize that the LIEberals concern over cow farts that arise over our desire to grill a steak or have a hamburger from time to time gets lost as a drop in the truly awesome amount of farts, urination, and defecation produced by God's living creations on the earth.
Praise Jesus!
All the world’s spiders consume more prey annually than humans.
It turns out spiders eat a lot each year. In fact, they eat more prey annually than humans do.
According to a new study published in the The Science of Nature of Springer, the world’s spiders eat 400 to 800 million tons of insects and other pests annually. In comparison, all humans on the face of this planet consume ‘only’ about 400 million tons in meat and fish.
Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland and Klaus Birkhofer of Lund University in Sweden examined data from sixty-five previous studies and found that altogether, in seven biomes on Earth, there are about twenty-five million metric tons of spiders. Most of them are found in forests, shrub-lands, and grasslands, also in croplands, deserts, cities and tundras.
With that, researchers used two simple models for calculating how much prey all spiders on this planet kill and eat per year. In their first approach, Nyffeler and Birkhofer took into account how much most spiders generally need to consume to survive, and census data on the average biomass of spider per square meter in various biomes. The second approach was based on prey capture (based on observations) in the field. They then combined it with estimates of spider numbers per square meter.
Again, their estimates suggest that all spiders eat 400 to 800 million tons of insects, pests and other prey each year.
To underline its size, the researchers compared the food consumption of all spiders with all humans around the globe. Altogether, humans eat an estimated 400 million tons of fish and meat annually. They also compared it with Whales that feed on 280 to 500 million tons of prey, and the global seabird population that eat an estimated 70 million tons of fish and other seafood each year.
“These estimates emphasize the important role that spider predation plays in semi-natural and natural habitats, as many economically important pests and disease vectors breed in those forest and grassland biomes,” says Nyffeler who is the lead author of the research.
It turns out spiders eat a lot each year. In fact, they eat more prey annually than humans do.
According to a new study published in the The Science of Nature of Springer, the world’s spiders eat 400 to 800 million tons of insects and other pests annually. In comparison, all humans on the face of this planet consume ‘only’ about 400 million tons in meat and fish.
Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland and Klaus Birkhofer of Lund University in Sweden examined data from sixty-five previous studies and found that altogether, in seven biomes on Earth, there are about twenty-five million metric tons of spiders. Most of them are found in forests, shrub-lands, and grasslands, also in croplands, deserts, cities and tundras.
With that, researchers used two simple models for calculating how much prey all spiders on this planet kill and eat per year. In their first approach, Nyffeler and Birkhofer took into account how much most spiders generally need to consume to survive, and census data on the average biomass of spider per square meter in various biomes. The second approach was based on prey capture (based on observations) in the field. They then combined it with estimates of spider numbers per square meter.
Again, their estimates suggest that all spiders eat 400 to 800 million tons of insects, pests and other prey each year.
To underline its size, the researchers compared the food consumption of all spiders with all humans around the globe. Altogether, humans eat an estimated 400 million tons of fish and meat annually. They also compared it with Whales that feed on 280 to 500 million tons of prey, and the global seabird population that eat an estimated 70 million tons of fish and other seafood each year.
“These estimates emphasize the important role that spider predation plays in semi-natural and natural habitats, as many economically important pests and disease vectors breed in those forest and grassland biomes,” says Nyffeler who is the lead author of the research.
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