Diet

What Spiders Eat

 What do spiders normally eat?
This varies with each individual spider species. Indeed, most of the statements made on this page are generalisations that probably are not true for every spider species that exists that the present time. However, most of the spiders that have been studied so far seem to have similar dietary and digestive patterns with just a few variations to suit the particular habitat each species has chosen. The first thing that should be stressed is that spiders will only eat living prey (or perhaps very recently killed ones) and are not carrion eaters. The majority of spiders feed on insects but the larger species will also eat other small animals such as millipedes and wood lice (slaters), small lizards and frogs, and even small birds in the case of tarantulas and the largest of the golden orb weavers.

 

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