Graham Milledge, the manager of the Australian Museum's arachnology collection, said it was unusual, but not unheard of, for spiders to target vertebrates. |
She specialized in arachnology and was on a weeklong spider-hunting trip through the Southwest. |
The mother's midgut had already started breaking down while she guarded the eggs, Salomon and her colleagues report in the April Journal of Arachnology. |