Cricket bit on leg, and survives?

[Pyrelitha]

Ok so my Gbb, first T, sling when I tried to feed him today, he grabbed the crickets leg. You could see both fangs in the leg, and after about 3 minutes the cricket broke off his leg and ran away. The T lost interest when I tried to reintroduce the cricket, he just kept the leg. So I put the cricket in a keeper, fully believing the thing would die to the venom... but its alive?? How? Does anyone know?

 

[Pyrelitha]

Also was the leg just a fine meal? He ate a full cricket 3days before

 

[Tearsacid]

Very interesting that the venom didn't make it to the crickets body. Crickets and grasshoppers can release legs as a defense mechanism so he must have released the injured leg before any real damage was done.

 

[Pyrelitha]

It's just weird since it looked like the leg was attached and the spider was holding the cricket for a good while before he escaped

 

[viper69]

You are both assuming venom was injected, a poor assumption, but not unreasonable.

 

[ArachnoHazard]

You are both assuming venom was injected, a poor assumption, but not unreasonable.

Yeah, there’s a good chance the bite was a dry one with no venom. Not every bite a spider of any sort gives is loaded with venom. It’s possible the T for whatever reason decided to dry bite the cricket and that’s how it was able to get away.