Spiders & Stats

This didn't get nearly enough coverage. (Maybe I mean it didn't cause enough hysteria to amuse me.)

Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year  —  Spiders are quite literally all around us.  A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than three-quarters of bedrooms.

Discussion:

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Report: Spiders could (in theory) eat every human on Earth in one year

Derek Mead / Motherboard:   Americans Could Eat Every American in Less Than Two Decades

AOL:   Spiders could theoretically eat every human on earth in one year

Dami Lee / The Verge:   Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in a year and that's okay by me

Heather Holeman / KFOR-TV:   Study: Spiders eat up to 800 million tons each year - more than twice the weight of the entire human population

Brett T. / twitchy.com:   News you can use: Researchers hope to raise awareness that spiders could eat us all in a year

Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez / Refinery29:   This Frightening Spider News Is Here To Haunt Your Dreams

Laura Vitto / Mashable:   Spiders could eat all humans in one year, and this petition wants to make it happen

Yes, let's test this theory. Rigorously.

Food for thought: The entire human pop. displaces less than 400 million tons? (No idea what I would've estimated.)

Song notwithstanding, it is the policy of this web-log not to kill spiders, unless they might be some of those big brown bite-y ones that could kill you.