Bat-eating
spiders are common and apparently creep around every continent, except
Antarctica, devouring various bat species. Here, a dead bat (Rhinolophus cornutus orii) caught in the web of a female Nephila pilipes on Amami-Oshima Island, Japan. A volant juvenile proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) entangled in web of Nephila clavipes photographed in a palm swamp forest near Madre de Dios, Peru.
Dead bat entangled in web of a female Nephila clavipes in a tropical rain forest in the middle of the Rio Dulce River Canyon near Livingston, Guatemala.