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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
By now, you may have heard about a study that came out a couple of weeks ago about spiders. The study got a lot of attention because coverage of the research often focused on the idea that spiders could eat every single person on the planet in a year and still find room for a lot of cows and elephants and such. In other words, spiders need a lot of meat. Fortunately, the food of choice for the overwhelming majority of spiders is other arthropods, mostly insects and another type of tiny critter called springtails.
Anyway, the study—which never mentions spiders eating all the world's people—was done by Martin Nyffeler at the University of Basil in Switzerland and Klaus Birkhofer of Lund University and Germany's Brandenburg University of Technology.

Places with plenty of spiders. Because most places are places with plenty of spiders. The write-up the April issue of the journal The Science of Nature concluded that the world's spider population weighs some 25 million tons. Now, your average spider only weighs an itty-bit, so if you do the calculation you get a total worldwide population of some eleventy gazillion spiders. More or less. But the 25 million tons of spiders is a real number, derived from other published studies, dating as far back as 1951.
The researchers then estimated how much weight in food that much weight of spiders would need. And they also went through many other studies that had estimated how much spiders ate in particular habitats, ranging from tropical forests to farms. Once they crunched all those arthropods, the intrepid spider speculators reached their verdict: spiders snatch between 400 million and 800 million tons of meat annually.
So if you see a spider—and there's almost certainly a bunch in your home right now—you could stomp it. Or you could gently put it outside. Or you could wish it bon appétit! And leave it to dine on the other stuff you probably want in your home even less.
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你可能听说了几周前发表的一项有关蜘蛛的研究PbX|Y(1|T|_45。这项研究得到了广泛关注，因为该研究主要关注这个想法：蜘蛛能在一年内吃掉地球上的所有人，同时还有胃口吃下大量牛和大象之类的动物;#|]rf_9jSx。换句话说，蜘蛛需要吃很多肉Mg9)VL,(=8w。幸运的是，绝大多数蜘蛛所选择的食物是其他节肢动物——大部分是昆虫以及另外一种叫做“弹尾虫”的小动物ydwes^ndkZ&%UW)MP8。
无论如何，这项研究从未提及蜘蛛会吃掉世界上所有的人，该研究由瑞士巴塞尔大学的马丁·尼弗勒和供职于隆德大学和德国勃兰登堡科技大学的克劳斯·博科弗共同完成kaz%8CO-PGNCXfxKe30c。
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所以，如果你看见了一只蜘蛛，基本上可以肯定现在你家里就有一群蜘蛛，你可以踩它-q27)@767@_-(6+5Qe。或者轻轻地把它放到外面去@T.L=MW*y_;sz9b。你也可以祝他好胃口！让它在你家里享用你不想要的其他东西1Na_e842xA+Q[|YO3=m3。
谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学xVAy_Ekcw@。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基y-M#2k_h_4yq,^DPkA。

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