What does it mean to digest?

To digest means to break down food and turn it into nutrients that the spider can use.

They have a extracellular digestive system which means the digestive system is outside of the cell.

What are nutrients?

Nutrients are substances that are needed for growth and living.

Spiders eat insects, varying from all shapes and sizes and some young spiders eat nectar, while some even eat small rodents

What do spiders need to eat and why?

What do spiders need?

Spiders mainly need protein to create webs, as well as other basic nutrients needed for people to surive

What do spiders eat?

They eat insects, some eat birds and small rodents.



What the spider eats depends on the size, and poison potency in the spider.

Food Getting

How do spiders get their food?

Spiders can get their food in many different types of ways including:

Hunting,

Making a trapdoor tunnel underneath the ground,

Making large webs,

or hiding on trees or in logs to catch small prey.

How do spiders digest what they've killed?

Spiders spit enzymes onto their prey, which digests their bodies into something a spider can suck up.