Tarantula Eating Crickets. Crickets are the most common food for these spiders. Blue moon my new cobalt blue tarantula eating a cricket duration.
In captivity the usual food for tarantulas consists of crickets although many alternatives and supplemental insects are also available including mealworms cockroaches and various others. Larger tarantulas will also eat frogs toads fish lizards bats and even small rodents and snakes. Tarantulas are predators which means they like to hunt their prey.
In captivity the usual food for tarantulas consists of crickets although many alternatives and supplemental insects are also available including mealworms cockroaches and various others.
Tarantulas will not usually eat dead prey or food offerings and rarely recognise prey that is totally still even if alive. Tarantulas will not usually eat dead prey or food offerings and rarely recognise prey that is totally still even if alive. What do tarantulas eat. They eat many kinds of large insects such as crickets grasshoppers june beetles cicadas millipedes caterpillars and other spiders.