What do insects taste like to spiders?

[SalticusScenicusStar]

What do insects taste like to spiders? Would insects taste sweet to spiders, or would they taste like water to them? Just curious

 

[pongdict]

Tastes like chicken

 

[SalticusScenicusStar]

Really? so insects taste like chicken to spiders? Interesting!

 

[kingshockey]

probably like guts and stuff

 

[8 legged]

Taste = perception of a chemical stimulus through contact
Spiders are said to have corresponding receptors on certain hairs, which can distinguish between edible and inedible substances. You could also say that spiders have better taste considering the junk we stuff in our bodies...

 

[MarkJ]

Have you asked your T what insects tasted like?

If they answer let me know

 

[Hardus nameous]

Whatever it is it must be delicious, so I'd guess something along the lines of Spam Florentine, Spam and Ramen, Grilled Spam and Cheese, Spam MacRibs, Nacho Spam dip or perhaps even Spam Spam Sausage and Spam with sauce Mornay.

 

[Tarantulafeets]

Protein, yum

 

[The Snark]

What do insects taste like to spiders? Would insects taste sweet to spiders, or would they taste like water to them?

Assuming this is a serious question. Spiders don't have tongues where most taste receptors are located, or mucus membranes as found in the mouths of mammals where most of the remaining receptors are found, and they don't have noses or sinuses where complimentary sensory cells are located. The mouths of spiders is essentially a simple mixing chamber where venom and salivary excretions combine with the material extracted from the prey, turning it into a digestible liquid.
On the other paw, my wife and most other spider munchers report spiders taste somewhat nut like.

 

[viper69]

Pizza

 

[The Snark]

Pizza

With sun dried tomato slices and a sprinkling of blue cheese.

 

[DustyD]

Chicken is the correct answer. Everything tastes like chicken.

 

[Jonathan6303]

Chicken is the correct answer. Everything tastes like chicken.

Except the chicken

 

[Edan bandoot]

You'd have to ask the spider.

 

[The Snark]

Everything tastes like chicken.
Interesting phenomenon. When the senses, taste and odor, report something new to the brain it associates - finds something close. Bland meat like flavor of chicken is commonly associated and assigned. It can take the brain a while to file a new flavor and give it a unique assignment. Durian being an excellent example, Strong pungent unique flavor. The closest thing the brain has in it's database is raw sewage. Similar in strength and pungency. But once you have been around durian and tasted the really good ones it gets it's own assignment it's a rich fruity odor not even remotely like sewage. Much closer to a sweet chewy candy when the taste buds get on on where it should be filed in the database.
Rattlesnake does NOT taste like chicken. It's closer to gamey pork once you have eaten a few. Not factory farm pork but wild boar.

 

[viper69]

Chicken is the correct answer. Everything tastes like chicken.

There's at least one thing that doesn't.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

There's at least one thing that doesn't.

The wife?

 

[The Snark]

There's at least one three thing(s) that doesn't.

Maybe five.

 

[gorybmovie]

What do insects taste like to spiders? Would insects taste sweet to spiders, or would they taste like water to them? Just curious

I asked my spider. He says they taste like your mom.

 

[jc55]

Could vary depending on what the insect feeds on being crickets eat pretty much anything.Guts goulash.