KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Aspider’sdiet consists mainly of mosquitoes, flies, moths, and sometimes even other spiders. So, despite the fear that these eight-legged predators can induce in humans, they’re beneficial creatures to have around since they can help prevent other pesky insects from invading your home.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spiders immobilise their prey in two ways-by biting and injecting paralysing venom, and by silk swathing and wrapping. Most hunting spiders simply grab and hold their prey in the pedipalps and front legs, while biting it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Centipedes, scorpions, and some insects such as wasps feed on spiders. Wasp species such as tarantula hawks (or spider wasps) and mud daubers paralyze the spider with its sting and lay an egg inside the spider’s abdomen. Then, when the wasp larvae emerge, they eat the spiders from the inside out.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spiders are obligate predators, meaning they must eat other animals to stay alive. They’re also generalist consumers, which is another way of saying that they prey on a variety of organisms, including other spiders, vertebrates (rarely), and their most common prey type, insects.