Corned beef eating spider?!

[dunroamin]

Never force an object into a web, always place it near such as on the window sill.
I fed a spider tinned salmon once as he looked very hungry and he spent a good half hour with his mouth on it either having a drink or eating it.
I dont think the salt would be too great in human foods though

[Jason Green]

Re-livened from 2007...!! Good, an interesting thread

If spiders 'liquidise' their prey by catching it on the web then dissolving it via saliva, then they like it that way because it then ends up a liquid, not because it was once live. Therefore I see no reason why they would turn down any meat however dry within reason as long as the moment it dropped it registered enough vibration with the spider to make it think it was alive. Once again they would just use their saliva to liquidise it to the same consistency as an insect???

[No.9 Spider]

When I kept and bred Theraphosids (tarantulas) and didn't have crickets locusts or mice to hand I often gave the larger ones raw meat, either minced or pieces of meat from the butchers.
They'd quite happily set about it no problem. In the morning all that would be left was the fat . Clever stuff that digestive fluid.



No.9 Spider

[Venger]

Understandable, with bird eating spiders and mice eating spiders (or other Mygalomorphs)

[charlottesWeb1]

I never knew that siders could eat corned beef thats awesome, however, i found a house spider in my bedroom and decided it looked quite cool and thought I'd keep it, but ive tried feeding it a dead mosquito and it wouldn't eat that and ive just fed it a dead bumble-bee i found in my dad's garage and it won't eat that either where am I going wrong? what should i fead it? can anyone help please ?? thanks x

[Geoff F]

Because those insects were dead they may have been too 'dried out' without any fluids for the spiders to consume.

Also, if I were a spider and some strange monster (person) dropped something into my web I would be very wary. Maybe a small piece of fresh and really juicy corned beef may tempt me, but definitely not an old insect corpse.

[Hedera]

Perhaps when the piece of corned beef has "gone off" it will attract some nice fat flies!

[The Woodman]

I occassionaly drop a small mealworm onto the web of my three year old spider who lives at the bottom of a potted plant on the kitchen windowsill.

Although the mealworm is much bigger than the spider, it drags it down the silken tunnel never to be seen again.

[babybottle]

Me and a friend threw some dog meat jelly into the web of a fat garden spider last summer (we were locked out and bored) and the spider first tugged on it's web to identify where the jelly was and then it proceded to wrap up and feed on the gift. I advise anyone to try it if you don't believe me!