Spider food

Spiders are predatory, carnivorous arthropods, mainly feeding on other invertebrates.

• Food is live prey only.
• Digestion starts outside the mouth:
  • they secrete digestive juices over the prey and turn it into a liquid;
  • they suck the liquified prey inside using their strong sucking stomach.
• Spiders often increase their body weight by 50% with a good meal.
• Spiders can eat their own weight in one meal (what weight of food would that be if it were you?)
• Spiders can go for long periods without food, the longest record being for 1 year (however, they do need moist conditions to prevent dehydration).

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