Most spiders aren’t picky and will eat almost any insect they can catch. Spiders eat flying insects, including houseflies, fruit flies, mosquitoes, moths, bees and wasps. They also eat crawling insects, including ants, beetles, cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers and earwigs. If it’s small and gets caught in a web, then it’s on the spider menu.

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Most spiders aren’t picky and will eat almost any insect they can catch.

Spiders eat flying insects, including houseflies, fruit flies, mosquitoes, moths, bees and wasps. They also eat crawling insects, including ants, beetles, cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers and earwigs.

If it’s small and gets caught in a web, then it’s on the spider menu.