Here's a cricket you can feed your tarantula's to (yes, you read that right)

[Dennis Nedry]

Sorry, didn't catch that one.



Let me be clear, I would never think of feeding a T to one of these (if I had one). But I will say the little I saw of the Sia ferox vs KB video convinced me that no T, no matter what the size, would want to mess with one of these. I think Sia ferox would win most of the time.

Many of these large crickets are spider specialists. Penalva sp king crickets are known to hunt funnel webs for example. I don’t doubt that they are capable of hunting most tarantulas

Tarantulas aren't made to hunt prey the same size as them in the majority of cases. Yes sometimes you'll see it but they're few and far between. An adult tarantula from a large species Theraphosa for example would make short work of a cricket that size. Just like the cricket apparently made short work of that tarantula in the video.

The fact that they aren’t meant to hunt similarly sized animals is one of the reasons I hate those bug fights. Theraphosa would probably make short work of most other terrestrial arthropods given their size with the exception of spider specialists like large pepsis wasps, giant centipedes or something much bigger than it like some of those giant land crabs

 

[Bob Lee]

I feel like a fight where both sides have armor would be more fair.
*Have a sinister grin on my face while holding a dehaani

 

[SonsofArachne]

Have a sinister grin on my face while holding a dehaani

That would interesting, but I think it would come down to whether or not the dehaani could manage to inject venom before the Sia ferox could chew it up. These crickets have massive jaws and I doubt a dehaani's armor would slow them down much. I own a couple of Jerusalem crickets and watching them eat mealworms is a sight to behold - like watching a tree branch being put into a wood chipper (without the chips flying out the back, fortunately).

 

[Mirandarachnid]

(without the chips flying out the back, fortunately)

 

[Bob Lee]

I was actually thinking about scorpions and beetles at first , but it felt like it would be unfair for the cricket.