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.
A small bat (superfamily Rhinolophoidea) entangled in the web of a Nephila pilipes spider at the top of the Cockatoo Hill near Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia. The spider pressed its mouth against the dead, wrapped bat, indicating that it was feeding on it.
Live bat trapped in the web of the spider Nephilengys cruentata in a thatch roof at Nisela Lodge, Swaziland.
Dead vespertilionid bat entangled in the web of a female Nephila pilipes in the Aberdeen Country Park, Hong Kong.
Dead vespertilionid bat entangled in the web of a female Nephila pilipes in the Aberdeen Country Park, Hong Kong.
Adult female Avicularia urticans spider feeding on a greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) on the side of a palm tree near the Rio Yarapa, Peru.
Adult proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) entangled in web of Argiope savignyi at the La Selva Biological Station, northern Costa Rica.
Dead bat (Myotis sp.) entangled in a web of Nephila clavipes in La Sirena, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica.
Dead bat (presumably Centronycteris centralis) entangled in an orb-web in Belize.
