The source of food for spiders depends on species. Most spiders feed on insects and even other spiders. It is important to know that most spiders will feed only on the live prey or prey that has been killed recently.


What is on the list?
Spiders are known to eat a variety of foods. Spiders consume special web bugs such as flies, mosquitoes, moths and butterflies. Fishing spiders, as the name suggests, fall in their mouths and attack their prey when approaching, while other spiders are fast enough to run insects and pick them up and eat them like cockroaches, grasshoppers and beetles.


What do spiders eat other than insects?
Although most types of spiders do not eat plant foods, there are some species that will feed on plant derived materials. In the jumping spider group, there is one type that gets 90 percent of its own nutrients from acacia leaves, found mainly in Central America. There is also a type of water spiders that build its underwater network. The favorite staple food for this spider is the fish.


Now that you know that you are not part of the food chain of spiders , this is not the way you want to tolerate the invasion of your space. If the spiders are a problem, contact the pest management specialists at Termix® for the best solution.