How long does it take for a black widow spider to die in captivity without food?
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As long as her(the widow's) husband takes to return! :D
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no offense, but are you sure that wasn't some sort of message from the giver?\n\nfeed it bugs.  just put a bunch of flies and crickets in the cage and let the spider eat them at its leisure.  remember to put a damp sponge in the cage so the flies and crickets have a source of water.  spiders don't like to eat what they don't kill themselves.
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Okay, first you need to give it a proper burial. Pick out a nice little casket, make it look nice. Don't forget to invite all the spider's friends; maybe one of them could say a few words about the spider, and how they would like to remember the spider. Then bury it some place nice. Perhaps buy a little tomb stone. Hope this helps.
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It should be dead by now, the itchy feelings and legs thing, thats all part of your fear of it, its true. When ever at wasp or something as landed on me before and i ve swiped it off, after i feel like its on me. Well, enough with the life story, heres some information on how lomg do ants live....\n\nSome ants can live a long time, while other ants have very short life spans. A species of worker ants in Africa only live for a few weeks, while one queen ant held in a German laboratory was 29 years old! Ants usually live in colonies. At the center of the colony is one or more queen ants -- these are females who lay eggs. Many smaller male ants work hard to feed and care for the queen. Not surprisingly, queens generally live longer than male worker ants. As I learned at a great site called ZoomSchool, ants usually live only 6 to 10 weeks!\n\nHope it helps your eating bug thing :)
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Since spiders dont have an internal skeletal structure the nerves are exposed.  When there legs pull together it is there nerves and muscles spasming  \n\nAlso spiders curle up in a ball when scared so if they die while they are curled up than they will stay that way
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A black widow. However the black widow has the red spot on it's under-side. Not on it's back. Be careful
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It will normally die quite soon. But you could keep it going for several weeks, or months if you're lucky!\n\nFirstly, do your plants have pesticide on them, or were they bought or potted within the last year? If so, even if it doesn't kill the mantis directly the poison in the soil will be absorbed into the plants and then into the crickets you might FEED your mantis, and so the mantis will be poisoned. Any plants that have been potted for more than a year should be okay though. \n\nHave you got a suitable food supply? If it's a female she'll eat quite a LOT, and get very fat! She may even honour you by putting her ootheca in your home so you get dozens (or hundreds!) of tiny mantids next Spring..! If it's a male he won't eat a lot - maybe 2 bugs a week, depending on the size! Maybe less, if they're big bugs, more if they're smaller. They only eat living bugs, so don't let any fool sell you dead flies...!\n\nThe temperature of your home ... the warmer it is, the more the mantis will perk up, but it should be cooler at night - maybe let the heating go off at night, until it's really cold. In the daytime, if you can walk around the house with a long-sleeved t-shirt and not get goose-bumps on your arms it will be okay! \n\nYou could buy a heat mat for insects, you're supposed to put them under the container the bug's in, but if you put it by the plants the mantis will surely gravitate towards it when it wants to. Don't let your home get too hot though, the mantis might 'dry up' a bit. As it will be living on or near your plants there should be enough humidity for the mantis, so that's good..! Spray the plants with a mister that has NEVER been used with pesticides - the mantis can drink when it needs to then..!\n\nBut don't forget that it's already an old lady (or man) now. It's inevitable that it can't last much longer - it's already lived the equivalent of it's three score and ten! It's very sad to see them die of old age ... but it's nice to know that you made their last days more comfortable..!
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Yes, insects can survive under water for a very long time.  One way is by trapping air in their body hair.  Most insects and arachnids are covered with fine hairs.  When under water, air becomes trapped among them.  This air can support the bug for a long time.\n\nThe waste pipes in your home are mostly empty.  Beyond the bowl the pipes are not full of water.  They are full of air.  Therefore once the water flows away the bug has an empty pipe upon which it can attach itself.\n\nSo the question of surviving underwater becomes moot.  There is no water to worry about.\n\nFlushing an insect or an arachnid (spiders are not insects they are arachnids) is not absolute or certain death.
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Lunch for a hungry spider.
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I think the best thing to do would be to raise flies and feed them these diets exclusively, then when the spiders eat the flies they will be taking in certian amounts of the chemical. However spiders do drink water droplets also, so maybe the best way to do it would be do slightly dilute the concentration with water and just leave these impregnated droplets in the terrarium. Or you could even remove the spider and place it in a small clear bottomed container, and administer the drops, then you can actually observe it drinking the drop.\n\nAs an entomologist and spider lover, I would love to know what you come up with, although Im not sure whether the spider's metabloic pathways will allow the caffein and other substances to really change thier behaviour, but good luck!
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a spider must feed on animal material, therefor it is a carnivor.  An omnivor will eat anything that it can.
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Black widows almost never weave a web more than 4 feet from the ground. They don't walk around (the males do but no worries with them) but stay in their nest and wait for bugs to come to them. They like dark quiet places and are not aggressive at all unless you pick em up or sit on them. In fact most bites occur in places with outdoor plumbing. When you sit down in the outhouse, that dark quiet place is just the sort of spot where a black widow lives (all of flies make for lots of spiders!)\n\nA black widow bite is not lethal to an adult (may be for kids). The vast majority of bites lead to nothing but some minor discomfort. The widow's fangs are short - a fraction of an inch and often not as long as your skin is thick - so they aren't able to inject much venom unless they get you in a really tender spot (see outhouse, above).
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In the wild, many male tarantulas have been shown to have an average life expectancy of only about five years, while females often live 25 to 30 years.\n\nThe survivorship of captive specimens may be much higher, where they have adequate food, water, and shelter, stable environments, no predators, and possibly most important, no chance for females to eat them during mating season.
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Black widow I guess. Not alot of spiders in Utah.
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ZERO.\n\nThis is just a myth\nThe swallowing spiders story is an urban legend started in 1993 by a columnist writing for a computer magazine. She wanted to illustrate how people accepted “facts” so readily on the Internet. It seems we still are! I think the original story was that, on average, a person swallows eight spiders per year.\n    Now, a spider would steer clear of your mouth at night—for goodness sakes, it might be eaten! Spiders have predators and having one breathe down their “necks” would be frightening. Why would they go looking to be dinner?
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OK a'lot of u don't no anything about catfish! It just depends on what catfish your dealing with and the conditions.  Some catfish in Africa can survive months without water, walking catfish have the capability of breathing oxygen (Bowfin are like this as well) they have something like a lung and this lung has chambers capable of taking in oxygen.  But these fish still need water in order to survive. I was fishing and caught these bullheads (small catfish) we accidently forgot one and this was in the afternoon when I returned the following day around 5-6pm it was still breathing I placed it back into the water and swimmed away.  CONDITIONS: The ground has to be moist or wet/muddy (keeps them cool) and theres a small amount of oxygen in the rain drops, moist ground, or mud.  If it's sunny and hot these fish wont live long (due to the slime drying out) and the slime makes them swim fast/quicker, scent (to find mates), and protects from diseases/viruses.
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actually this is an old wives tale. Most people would say 7 a year. This is actually untrue. I read a scientific document on this and there is a specific reason I cannot recall but spiders will generally recoil and scurry off at anything moving....including movement from breathing. Spiders also prefer high and dry locations over damp warm mouths.