When Alejandro Rico-Guevara was in middle school, he was obsessed with spiders. There were plenty to find in the forests around his hometown of Bogotá, Colombia. But to capture the most elusive spiders, he paired up with more adept hunters: hummingbirds. “They’re so bold,” he says, “and they could find spiders I couldn’t.”
When Alejandro Rico-Guevara was in middle school, he was obsessed with spiders. He liked looking for them in the forests around his hometown of Bogotá, Colombia. But some spiders were hard to spot. So Rico-Guevara learned to follow some better hunters: hummingbirds. “They’re so bold,” he says. “They could find spiders I couldn’t.”