What Do Spiders Eat In The Winter?

[sandyRoe]

I've just watched a spider deal with a fly caught in its web. There aren't many flies about in the winter. What do they eat then?

[ToraToraTora]

They eat all manner of insects, spiders are our friends.

[jno]

a wide and varied diet, including spiders

https://thebigzoo.com/animals/what-do-spiders-eat-in-the-winter/

[DTCwordfan]

they visit local graveyards and dine on boxed meals.

[MissTerious]

We have a houseful of spiders at present. They are cannibals! They fascinate me now and I used to run from them until I lived in a very old place with beams and hidey holes for them. They are looking very big and fat at the moment, so obviously eating well!

[sandyRoe]

Cannibals, I won't view them with the same sympathy as I once did.

[MissTerious]

Well the wives eat their Husbands after mating. Good idea!

[Lie-in King]

Shouldn't have clicked on this thread. I'd rather have what they eat than them. Horrible, evil, sly, skittery sods. I genuinely have a bad thing about them & yes, I know it's completely irrational.

[sandyRoe]

Your wedding breakfast could also be your wake. Who'd be a male spider?

[MissTerious]

Better not invite you over Lie-in-King!

[davebro]

I do kick 'em out if I see them. I think it was a spider bite during the night that gave me the fat lip a while back. qv.

[naomi24]

My vacuum cleaner eats spiders. Yes, I’m know - but I don’t care. Can’t stand them!

[MissTerious]

My spiders are all call Freddie. Giving them a name has helped my fear of them. Mind you, I can't handle them if they're over half an inch.

[sandyRoe]

There are leggy ones here that are at least 3" across.

[naomi24]

I really tried with one, lottie. George by name. He popped out regularly from under a skirting board and popped back again … but as time went on he seemed to be getting bigger and bigger … until eventually …whoosh! He was no more.

[MissTerious]

Oh Naomi , you brute ;0). If ìm honest I apologise if I kill insects and spiders accidentally, unless they are house flys or earwigs.

[Ken4155]

The bigger the spider, the bigger the web they can spin and the more flies they can catch.
Probably not scientifically true, but that's my mantra as regards our leggy fiends.

[naomi24]

I know - and I live in virtual sackcloth and ashes at spider time. The stupid thing is I can get something like a great big wasp in a glass and put it out - and that can sting me! It makes no sense at all.

[MissTerious]

Watching them build a web is super for mindfulness - fascinating .

[sandyRoe]

Imagine coming back in your next reincarnation as a spider. Every time you heard a vacuum being switched on you'd think your time had come.
And if you were a male who thought you'd got lucky at the ugly bug ball, well...

[naomi24]

I do that in the garden. Love it. Indoors no.