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Are all spiders parasites

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Absolutely not! Although Spiders are predatory and fluid-feeding, they almost always kill their food (unless it's too big). This is a key difference between predators and parasites: parasites benefit from their hosts without killing them.

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A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism and feeds off of it to no benefit of the host/victim (an alternative where there is a benefit is a symbiotic relationship as opposed to a parasitic one), without deliberately killing it. Some spiders do live part of their lives as parasites e.g. if eggs were laid under the skin. Spiders are commonly hunters and trap prey in webs, then consume them.

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