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Whole lotta bugs

Our estimates assessed with two different methods suggest that the annual prey kill of the global spider community is in the range of 400–800 million metric tons (fresh weight), with insects and collembolans composing >90% of the captured prey. This equals approximately 1‰ of the global terrestrial net primary production.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-017-1440-1