Do spiders eat other spiders?

[AndyKH]

.........erm yes they do. I chucked a house spider out last night, but decided to see what would happen if i threw it on a garden spiders web. Well the feisty little garden spider came running out, strummed his web a bit. Circled the house spider for a while then went mental and wrapped the house spider up before taking his parcel to a safe spot before biting it and eating it. Am i a freak for watching this or am i freak for photographing it?

[ph1l5]

Good photos.

[Odie]

dibbers006 said:

Does that mean Spiders Webs have a unique genetic code that makes them non-sticky to themselves but sticky to other Spiders?

Harsh!

IIRC the Straight bits are not stick and the circly bits are.

[Scotfox]

dibbers006 said:

Does that mean Spiders Webs have a unique genetic code that makes them non-sticky to themselves but sticky to other Spiders?

Harsh!

Not quite but each spider spaces the sticky blobs to match it's stride and hence can easly step over them itself.

[adam85]

At lunch time too for christ sake

[AB]

Black Widows... eat their male sexual partner afterwards.

[Carfiend]

AB said:

Black Widows... eat their male sexual partner afterwards.

Blackwidows and few other species as well.

[elster]

Carfiend said:

AB said:

Black Widows... eat their male sexual partner afterwards.

Blackwidows and few other species as well.

Sounds a bit like a divorce in the UK.

[Mexico.]

Goochie said:

There is a female spider in the US that eats the male after mating!

Michelle Obama

[lawrence567]

I used to catch flies in glasses and release them into a spiders web, bloody cool to watch the spider at speed come out of the corner, wrap it up and eat it!

[FTJoe]

I sometimes throw stray cats in the pen in the garden where our too rotts sleep, I guess this is the same kind of thing?

Nice pics though.

[Goochie]

Mexico. said:

Goochie said:

There is a female spider in the US that eats the male after mating!

Michelle Obama

How did you manage to quote that after I'd deleted it ??

[Mexico.]

Goochie said:

Mexico. said:

Goochie said:

There is a female spider in the US that eats the male after mating!

Michelle Obama

How did you manage to quote that after I'd deleted it ??

Good question well made i don't have a clue



Cheers

The Moose

[theshrew]

lawrence567 said:

I used to catch flies in glasses and release them into a spiders web, bloody cool to watch the spider at speed come out of the corner, wrap it up and eat it!

Mmmmmm interesting life you have. How long did it take you to catch a fly in a glass ?