Will a spider be killed if...?

Question

If you kill a fly with insecticide spray and it falls to the floor dead, and a spider comes along and eats the fly, will the spider die to?

Answer 1

Likely the spider will not be harmed. Flies breathe through tiny pores in their bodies and the insecticide blocks the pores causing asphyxiation. A spider encases the fly in a thick web cacoon then injects it with digestive fluids that it can suck out later with the liguified fly internals (all the good parts!). Likely though the spider would avoid a fly that smelled like fly spray or a fly that did not try to escape.

Answer 2

It depends on the kind of insecticide. Some kinds
of insect spray have little or no effect on spiders,
at least on contact. Whether some that don't
hurt the spiders just by touching them would kill
them if eaten, I don't know. I have known spiders
to be killed by eating insects that came from areas
where insecticide was often used. The insects
had become resistant to the spray, but the spiders
had not. So the answer to your question is, maybe
yes, maybe no, depending on the spray.

Spiders will sometimes eat insects that are already
dead, though usually their prey has to be moving
to attract their attention.

Answer 3

You spray some flies with insecticide and they may die or not. Then a spider eats a couple of such flies and gets more insecticide Then a bird eats a few of those spiders and concentrates more insecticide inside it, which causes its eggs to have very thin shells that break before hatching.

There will always be more flies, but birds can disappear or become endangered species. It happened with DDT, that is why insecticides are now disapproved of.

Answer 4

if the fly fell into the spiders web and it ate the fly then more likely it would but the chances of the fly landing in the web and moving so the spider comes out to eat it is slim and if it does u need new fly spray.

Answer 5

earlier I did. i grew to become into very terrified of spiders and used to kill them protecting a distance using long sticks. in the event that they are not killed on the 1st attempt and that they circulate, I ran for my existence. Its not the comparable subject at present. If I see them, I circulate away them on my own without nerve-racking them. an excellent style of the spiders at the instant are not volatile, fairly of the type it quite is present day in and close to our properties. yet cognizance does not supply up me from not thinking my sister to be stupid for shouting on the sight of spiders because of the fact i comprehend i might have accomplished precisely the comparable if i grew to become into of her age. We in simple terms concern them seeing its physique shape. It has 8 legs which cause them to look as though a monster. certainly they are harmless. So the issue is with us and not with the spiders. yet i don't think of human beings will ever supply up hating those creatures fairly whilst information shows everybody is greater terrified of spiders than they are of dieing.

Answer 6

I don't know: I'm still working on irradiating a spider with radioactivity and then getting it to bite me and give me spider powers. So far, all I've gotten is blood poisoning from a nasty infection.

Answer 7

Possibly!

Answer 8

i think spiders only go after prey that has fallen into its web. It does not forage for dead creatures.

Answer 9

spiders do not eat dead flies, it has to be alive and kicking.

Answer 10

That seems very likely to me. Oh, and you misspelled "too", by the way.-Steve