Welp, thats new.

[Venom1080]

Anyone ever seen a tarantula die while eating?

 

[Smotzer]

Hrrmmm……Nope.

Maybe the meal worm got it back, did enough damage, and they both went out together.

 

[Poonjab]

Toxic meal worm?

 

[l4nsky]

Please tell me this is just some bizarre form of taxidermy lol. If it's not, then I can't really fathom how that would happen. It kind of reminds me of the "Fighting Dinosaurs" fossil with the dueling protoceratops and raptor specimens lol. Anyway you can get a clearer picture by chance? Can you see any injury to the spider? Are the fangs still visibly in the mealworm?

 

[BoyFromLA]

Anyone ever seen a tarantula die while eating?

I just did.

 

[Edan bandoot]

You should preserve that

 

[OddballSpoods]

That is the first time I have ever seen anything like that!

 

[Kibosh]

Nope. That's up there. Lots of possibilities.

Fangs could have got stuck in it, but it was too much to eat yet still a mortal wound to the worm so they both died.

Or as others have already pointed out maybe the worm got a lucky shot in with it's mandibles and caused a mortal wound on the sling while it was feeding.

Truth is we will never know.

 

[viper69]

Whoa!

 

[LucN]

Just when we think we've figured them out, we get instances like this. Very, very strange. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Venom1080]

Hrrmmm……Nope.

Maybe the meal worm got it back, did enough damage, and they both went out together.

I prekill mealies for tiny slings. Couldn't have been bitten.

This sling was the smallest of my regalis sac hold backs. The other 9 were always bigger and better eaters.

Toxic meal worm?

No. It's just been in there a few days. I do sling feedings usually twice a week.

 

[Smotzer]

I prekill mealies for tiny slings. Couldn't have been bitten.

Well than I’m at a loss for words, as that’s the only way I can see it potentially happening