Why do toads eat spiders?

We tend to think of toads as eating only flies or other flying insects. They actually have a wider dietary range than that. Toads commonly eat many different small invertebrates like insects (flying or not), spiders, grubs, snails, and worms. Occasionally, larger ones might even take on small fish or pinky mice. read more

Adult toads eat insects and invertebrates, such as flies, grasshoppers, spiders, beetles, crickets, grubs, slugs, centipedes, millipedes and worms. Larger types of toad, such as cane toads, are big enough to eat small rodents like mice as well, and small lizards. read more

They are not picky eaters.The smaller frogs usually eat insects, spiders, bugs and worms. The bigger ones even go for mammals that are smaller than them like a mouse, little chicks, small birds, snails, slugs, centipedes, rats, bats, small fish and even other frogs. However, most frogs do like they food alive and moving. read more