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How do wild tarantulas obtain their food?

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While there are a variety of tarantulas with their own strategy to life, they generally hunt the same way. They either wait in their lairs to ambush prey that comes to close, or after dark, they may go out and hunt for food. read more

They either wait in their lairs to ambush prey that comes to close, or after dark, they may go out and hunt for food. In both cases they pounce on their food and pull them into their fangs with their legs and palps. read more

Although web building spiders are among the best known arachnids, many arachnids, such as scorpions and several families of spiders, are hunters that wander actively in search of food. Other arachnids, including most harvestman (opilionids) are mostly scavengers, which is why they lack venom. read more

Depending on their size, tarantulas eat insects or even larger prey, such as frogs, mice, and birds. They eat all kinds of insects, especially larger ones like crickets and grasshoppers, June beetles, cicadas, millipedes, caterpillars and other spiders. read more

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