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What do black widows spiders eat?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Black widow Spiders eat flies, moths, and other insects that fall, crawl, or fly into the web. Black widows make messy "tangle" webs. They like to make their webs in dark protected place with access to the outside. They are usually found in places like overturned boxes in the yard, boxes that are made to protect well pumps, to hide faucets for lawn watering systems, to screen water meters, etc. In short, anything that looks like a box, has a crack or a hole or two in it so that insects can come in to get out of the weather, and is close to the ground may give a black widow spider supports to hang a web from and protection from the weather and from its natural enemies.

Black widows will eat just about anything that is small enough to be unable to rapidly pull free of its web. They are unlikely to catch otherwise suitable prey such as butterflies that will not ordinarily go into dark places near the ground.

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beeles,June bugs,grasshoppers,moths and other spiders

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