What Do Wall Spiders Eat. Getting rid of their food source can help get rid of them. Most house spiders are carnivores and enjoy eating a variety of household insects like flies, cockroaches, earwigs, mosquitoes, fleas, moths, and ants.
Spiders cannot eat solid food. Most house spiders are carnivores and enjoy eating a variety of household insects like flies, cockroaches, earwigs, mosquitoes, fleas, moths, and ants. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all seven billion humans on the planet combined, who the authors note consume about 400 million tonnes of meat and fish each year.
The strength of their web allows them to capture and kill insects larger than they are.
I haven't done a good spider post in a while, and since this is the infinite spider blog i do feel this need to keep up. They don't swallow their victims, rather, they inject them with venom that digests the prey inside its own body. The species stegodyphus dumicola, native to south africa, lives in large family groups that share both communal nests and childcare duties. It's not pretty to think about, but that is just how it works.