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  2. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

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    Oligophagy is a term for intermediate degrees of selectivity, referring to animals that eat a relatively small range of foods, either because of preference or necessity. [2] Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as: Carnivore: the eating of animals Araneophagy: eating spiders; Avivore: eating birds

  3. Spider cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Nephila sp. consuming a conspecific (member of the same species) Spider cannibalism is the act of a spider consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. It is most commonly seen as an example of female sexual cannibalism where a female spider kills and eats a male before, during, or after copulation. Cases of non ...

  4. Arachnids as food - Wikipedia

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    About 15 species of spiders are scientifically described as being edible, with a history of human consumption. [2] These edible spiders include: Thailand zebra leg tarantula (Cyriopagopus albostriatus) which is sold fried as traditional snack in Cambodia and Thailand; Thailand Black (Cyriopagopus minax); Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi);

  5. Arachnophagy - Wikipedia

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    Like the human consumption of insects (anthropo-entomophagy), arachnids as well as myriapods also have a history of traditional consumption, either as food or medicine. Arachnids include spiders, scorpions and mites (including ticks) that are consumed by humans worldwide. [3] Fried spider, primarily tarantula species, is a regional snack in ...

  6. Do sleeping humans really swallow 8 spiders a year? - AOL

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    No one has found her, and her full name is an actually an anagram for "this is a big troll." So we might not know where this urban legend came from, but at least we can sleep without worrying ...

  7. Spider behavior - Wikipedia

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    Almost all known spider species are predators, mostly preying on insects and on other spiders, although a few species also take vertebrates such as frogs, lizards, fish, and even birds and bats. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Spiders' guts are too narrow to take solids, and they liquidize their food by flooding it with digestive enzymes and grinding it with ...

  8. Matriphagy - Wikipedia

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    Desert Spider, Stegodyphus lineatus, one of the best-described species that participates in matriphagy Matriphagy is the consumption of the mother by her offspring. [1] [2] The behavior generally takes place within the first few weeks of life and has been documented in some species of insects, nematode worms, pseudoscorpions, and other arachnids as well as in caecilian amphibians.

  9. Consumer (food chain) - Wikipedia

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    Within an ecological food chain, consumers are categorized into primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. [3] Primary consumers are herbivores, feeding on plants or algae. Caterpillars, insects, grasshoppers, termites and hummingbirds are all examples of primary consumers because they only eat autotrophs (plants).