If you're interested in bats, there's a good chance you know that around 70 percent of bat species are insectivores, some capable of consuming hundreds of insects an hour, some gobbling down up to a third of their body weight during a single night of hunting. Some species even eat spiders , though it is not their primary food source. But it turns out spiders, perhaps in solidarity with their evolutionary cousins, are capable of flipping the tables every once in a while and consuming bats. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

In the past, spiders have been observed to consume dead bats, but this was assumed to be an act of necrophagy, consuming the corpses of animals that had not been killed by the spiders themselves. But i

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