Photos of spiders eating things at least 5 times their size!

I've got my eyes on you, Jack

It's amazing that spiders can eat animals bigger than themselves...

A common perception is that spiders like to eat flies that have been silly enough to fly into their webs and traps. This is all true but you can add that moths and other flying insects like butterflies also make up part of a healthy spider diet.

The truth is that spiders will eat just about anything their 8 legs can grab onto.

Here's some cool pictures of what some spiders have been caught eating, including the odd lizard, worm and even a bird!

Damn freaks!

Right?

We'll start our run with an early spider gets the worm joke: yep, this spider is munching down on a juicy worm. How do I know worms are juicy? I got paid a dollar once by my brother to eat one.

Sucker!

I would have done it for 50 cents!

Worm for breakfast

Now we have the classic tarantula spider eating a dead chicken picture. 

I'd be surprised if this huge spider managed to bring down the chicken all by himself but none-the-less, it's a spider eating a chicken shot! I hope it's not a staged photo...

Tarantula eating a spider

You'd think lizards and geckos would be faster than a spider right? Not so in these two pictures.

The picture below appears to be showing a spider carrying a lizard up a door or a window. Kind of reminds me of this python pulling up a kangaroo actually! Either way, that's a strong spider.

Spider carrying a lizard up a door frame

Lizard for Lunch?

Now this is where our what do spiders eat photo essay gets a little weird...

Can you imagine a spider eating a snake? Can you imagine a Spider reading the meaning of U2's One song lyrics?

Well, it looks like this little fella managed to capture a grass snake of some kind in his web and made him a snack.

Spider eats a snake!

Hey Jimmy Jangles, that's only a little snake! It hardly counts! Okay then dear reader, how about a bigger snake being eaten by a spider? That image does kind of look like a set up though eh?

Snake eaten by a spider

In the spider kingdom there's one spider that everyone knows the name of: Taranatula! And here's a picture of one eating a small mouse. 

Tarantula eating a mouse

So far we've had the spiders eating the worms, spiders, mice and and the odd chicken, but I've saved my favorite picture till last. Spider eating a bird. It's my favorite because that is one big bird and that is one mean looking spider. And that bird must have put up a decent fight right? So imagine how tough the spider is!

Bird being eaten by a spider

Still interested in spiders? Check out this myth about spiders that eat camels!

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Meet the gargantuan carpet python that likes to eat possums

Meet the gargantuan carpet python from Mooloolaba, Australia that likes to eat whole possums, just casually in someone's back yard. Given the snake is on the roof of the house, we guess it slowly snuck down on to an unsuspecting possum on the ground. 

Here's some more pictures of snakes eating animals.

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Never give up!

It's curtains for this lizard that's been nearly eaten whole by this King snake!

Well, at least this alligator lizard doesn't think so and is making one last effort for freedom by biting the snake back!

We wonder how long the lizard held out and if he was able to sink any teeth into the skin of the snake. It would be amusing for the snake if he couldn't finish his meal due this last ditch escape effort!

Hold up, I actually found some comment by the photographer on what actually happened:

P.S. I watched the lizard for quite some time, and as I walked away, the kingsnake began slowly withdrawing from its prey. Just goes to show, if you refuse to accept that you've been beaten, you just might be able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Literally."

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Snakes alive! Frog eats a snake...

Usually it's the other way around, the snake eats the frog. In this case, the frog is the victor...

We think the snake is trying to catch a fly....

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Australian Snake eats a bat, Reddit freaks out as usual.

Australian Snake captures a bat on the side of the road

A keen Redditor posted this picture he took of a scene he found outside his grandmother’s house in Mount Tambourine, Queensland, Australia.

Basically this snake appears to have caught a bat / flying fox of some kind and decided to eat it in the middle of the road. 

Here's a sweet picture of an Australian snake eating a bat that it managed to find on the side of the road. The reaction on Reddit was amusing. Snakes eat things people!


The only real issue here is that the snake chose to chow down on the bat WITHOUT.ANY.SAUCE.

Want to see snakes eating more things? And if you are a Star Wars fan, check out some classic Obi Wan quotes.

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Wasps eating the meat of a dead snake

The title of this post pretty much sums up all this photo is. Yes, these wasps have come across a dead snake and are chowing down on its yummy meat:

Found on Reddit, this picture drew some interesting commentary. One knowledge Redditor pointed out that wasps do eat meat and protein, or rather their young do:

'It's how they feed their young. The adult wasps only need flower nectar and other sugars to fuel their life processes, but the larvae need proteins to grow into adults. As such, adult wasp also hunt and scavenge for sources of protein that they don't even eat themselves. When they get back to the hive, they chew it up into meatballs and give them to the larvae one at a time. The larvae even scratch the sides of their cells to make noise to get the attention of worker wasps and say that they are hungry.'

With an attitude like that, it's no wonder most people prefer bees... If I was a wasp, I'd sure want to test the ph of that meat, maybe with an Apera Pocket Tester.

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Turtle Power! Turtle kills and eats a rattlesnake

This almost a terrifying picture when you realise just how dangerous turtles can be ! This one has managed to kill and eat a rattlesnake. Through a fence! Cowabunga!

I thought turtles only ate pizza? Look at the eyes of that snake eating turtle - he's seen things, been places you and I could never fathom. To him, this snake is just a snakey snack. To us, it's a glimpse into the heart of darkness.

Cowabunga indeed.

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This tiger snake was too slow for this Heath Monitor

Taken by Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife officer Janine Liddelow, this picture shows a Heath Monitor eating a tiger snake. Impressive effort that.

The photo was taken in late 2015 near Walpole.

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A snake taking fishing to a new level

We've had a snake catching a fish before, but this picture is simply cooler:

It seems to be a cat fish that has fallen prey to the snake. No source for this picture so no details on the scenario involved.

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River snake catches himself a fish for dinner

Reddit suggested that this water snake caught this fish in Chattahoochee River, North Atlanta. It's kind of impressive that a snake could do this given how fast fish can move - I wonder how it really happened?

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