Every animal has a niche in it’s environment right? So if an animal dies out then it’s role in the environment is not fulfilled. Thus leading to consequences. I ask this question because whenever I bring up spiders, I am told that they are vital in keeping the population of insects down. But how true is that statement. I mean if spiders were wiped off the earth, would it really come with disastrous consequences. Would it not simply lead to another insect that preys on the same thing to fill the gap. Would we really be head to toe in flys. I’m sure there are arachnid enthusiast who will tell me that spiders are sooooo important, but in reality, surely they are replaceable. Obviously it’s a hypothetical question, seeing as spiders would never die out.
Also, if every animal has an important role to play, what consequences came from the excitation of the Dodo. Did the Dodo have simply little or no role to begin with.
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What If There Were No Spiders?
Posted on May 29, 2011.
There’d be a lot more flys.
if there were no spiders, over a long period of time, any bugs usually eaten by spiders would raise in population. it would be possible that everywhere we turned there would be massive amounts of creepy- crawlies that spiders used to eat. birds, as well as other animals that eat spiders, would probably lower in population due to lack of food, considering the amount of eggs spiders lay. the lower the population of birds, the lower the population of anything that ate that type of bird. the spiders help balance the world out. if a break in the food chain happened, it is possible that everything affected by the extinct animal would be affected in major ways. believe me, i’m no spider enthusiast, but if you think about it, spiders make up a giant population of bug- eaters. so, i’m sure they effect the population of bugs majorly. but, i can’t help you on the Dodo part. 🙂
Most Arthropodologists would cry.
I know I would.