Spiders Need Feeding Too

I keep crickets and locusts as pets. My thinking behind this was that I didn’t want to see these lovely little critters become live food for various other beasties, such as snakes, lizards and tarantulas. However, when they pass away naturally I have no issues with offering them to the false widow spider who lives behind the umbrella in our hallway and the 2 spiders (one a false widow) who live together amicably in the shed.

The backdrop to the above photograph is our kitchen. I would rather not do it however the spiders need feeding too. Unfortunately at this time of the year, the slight temperature drop in the evenings is having a greatly deleterious effect on my cricket and locust friends and so there is a very steady die-off occurring now. The locusts which have become friendly towards me and who seek out my company, are buried in amongst the flowers in the garden and will invariably then become food for the soil. It’s the grand cycle of nature. Death and rebirth.