Scientists Find a Spider Wearing a “Pearl Necklace” – and It’s Made of Living Parasites

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, researchers noticed something unusual. A spider only a few millimeters long appeared to be wearing a strand that […]Science,Biodiversity,Evolutionary Biology,São Paulo Research Foundation,Spiders,Zoology#Scientists #Find #Spider #Wearing #Pearl #Necklace #Living #Parasites1767876965