Episode 64: Blood-Eating Mosquitoes, Mosquito-Eating Spiders

This episode was originally recorded several years ago and I never got around to editing and posting it - but we're getting back into the swing of things and I didn't want to let this one molder away in the vault! A short episode on hematophagy (blood-eating) as a strategy in arthropods, and especially a curious little spider, Evarcha culicivora, which is a specialist on mosquitoes. 

Sources, further reading, and a transcript are available at our website here: https://asabpodcast.com/?p=5615 

The show is on Bluesky @ASABpod, Charles @chwallace, Tessa @tessafisher.  

Our intro music is by Nicole Petkovich. 

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