What do trapdoor spiders do with the bodies?

[SolifugidSultanate]

I've had my Damarchus Workmani trapdoor spider for some months now and its never once brought any waste up to the surface and I have never seen any other species of trapdoor do that either. Do they bury the waste? Do they have a trash room? Do they line the walls with leftover matter? What do they do?

Attached: a recent feeding of my Workmani in slow motion

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Video won’t work for me , I don’t have any trapdoors but it’s weird no bolas ?

 

[SolifugidSultanate]

Video won’t work for me , I don’t have any trapdoors but it’s weird no bolas ?

Nope! No trash is brought up at all. Also, judging from the amount of dirt actually brought up by the spider to the surface, it does not strike me as a particularly large tunnel network and I feel like that, in combination with how long I have had him, is some indication that he must be doing something with the remains,

 

[The Snark]

There is a segment of a Steve Irwin video where he checked abandoned spider holes to determine what it had been eating. Also a way to tell if she has had a hubby... (for lunch).

 

[RezonantVoid]

Many species shred up the leftover exoskeletons and stuff them in an underground chamber

 

[RezonantVoid]

Many species shred up the leftover exoskeletons and stuff them in an underground chamber

[Edit]
Not sure why the comment double posted, sorry

 

[SolifugidSultanate]

Many species shred up the leftover exoskeletons and stuff them in an underground chamber

interesting. do you know of any burrow dissections or graphs or something that show how this works?

 

[RezonantVoid]

interesting. do you know of any burrow dissections or graphs or something that show how this works?

Not off the top of my head, but soon ive gotta get a Euoplos out of its burrow of several years to transfer it permanently into a vivarium, I'll save this thread and try and add a pic of all the bunched up remains inside. Some traps will fling the remains out in small balls away from the burrow to lead possible predators away, but most of the Aussie ones I've had hoard them underground unless they build up too much

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Not off the top of my head, but soon ive gotta get a Euoplos out of its burrow of several years to transfer it permanently into a vivarium, I'll save this thread and try and add a pic of all the bunched up remains inside. Some traps will fling the remains out in small balls away from the burrow to lead possible predators away, but most of the Aussie ones I've had hoard them underground unless they build up too much

Makes sense , bolas attract scavengers and predators. Interesting how both tarantulas and traps burrow but they are very different, very few tarantulas make trap doors.