Do trapdoor spiders like to eat BEETLES?

[tarantulaatrkew]

Just wondering if trapdoor spiders like to eat beetles

 

[MoranDisciple]

My cyclocosmia doesn't even eat while I'm there. I have to drop in a feeder and leave for a couple hours and even then it doesn't always eat. I've never tried a beetle but I would guess they're more likely to attack them than most T's due to their more "heavy duty" bodies.

 

[basin79]

Just wondering if trapdoor spiders like to eat beetles

Probably depend on what size the spider/beetle was and what beetle it was. Many don't taste nice.

My cyclocosmia doesn't even eat while I'm there. I have to drop in a feeder and leave for a couple hours and even then it doesn't always eat. I've never tried a beetle but I would guess they're more likely to attack them than most T's due to their more "heavy duty" bodies.

You want a Liphistius sp.

 

[tarantulaatrkew]

I used to have a liphisticus, but because of Covid, I couldn’t go back home, and that tiny sling was without food or water for 3 months, alongside a t stermi sling I currently have a A. Pacificus trapdoor

 

[basin79]

I used to have a liphisticus, but because of Covid, I couldn’t go back home, and that tiny sling was without food or water for 3 months, alongside a t stermi sling I currently have a A. Pacificus trapdoor

Why did you leave them on their own in the first place at that size?

 

[tarantulaatrkew]

Wasn’t my choice. Left town for a funeral, only planned to be gone for 2 days and yeah

 

[basin79]

Wasn’t my choice. Left town for a funeral, only planned to be gone for 2 days and yeah

That's beyond upsetting. Poor little buggers.

 

[tarantulaatrkew]

Yes it was a 2/4 inch liphisticus sling, 1 inch t stermi and 1 inch P. Sazamai. Is it possible anyone on if them could be alive after 3 months?

I don’t have any friends so no one could help me

 

[tarantulaatrkew]

This was him

 

[CamranT]

Yes it was a 2/4 inch liphisticus sling, 1 inch t stermi and 1 inch P. Sazamai. Is it possible anyone on if them could be alive after 3 months?

I don’t have any friends so no one could help me

Ill be your friend

 

[MoranDisciple]

Probably depend on what size the spider/beetle was and what beetle it was. Many don't taste nice.



You want a Liphistius sp.

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I love your Liphistius videos and I mean to get one. My cyclocosmia is absolutely beautiful but what's the point if I never see her? Personality is key to trapdoors/fossorials!

 

[RezonantVoid]

Just wondering if trapdoor spiders like to eat beetles

I find plenty of beetle shells in the burrows of many burrowing spiders. I dont see why itd be any different overseas