Poec54
Arachnoemperor
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I feed dead and dying crickets to my spiders, as long as the underside of the cricket's abdomen is still light-colored and hasn't begun to darken. I was doing this last weekend to some of my spiders and dropped a large freshly-dead adult female cricket on the front legs of an AF Augacephalus ezendami. Unlike the other spiders that day (including other ezendami), she didn't grab it. Instead, after a few seconds she carefully and methodically rolled it with her palps and front legs (didn't pick it up) and pushed it over to the side of the cage, as part of her house cleaning. Tidied up the place a bit. I picked up that same cricket (with forceps) and dropped it on the front legs of a juvenile B smithi, who immediately grabbed it with her fangs, thrilled with her good fortune.
Then I went back a tossed a live cricket to the ezendami female, and she quickly pounced on it.
Then I went back a tossed a live cricket to the ezendami female, and she quickly pounced on it.