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What Do Tarantulas Eat?

What Do Tarantulas Eat?

Aphonopelma chalcodes
Aphonopelma chalcodes posing with a cricket in her jaws.

Pretty much anything they can overpower! Most thrive on a diet of insects, such as crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, etc. Some tarantulas will eat larger prey, such as frogs, small lizards, and even mice. In captivity, however, crickets and roaches will do just fine!

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