5- Do spiders eat cockroach

Spiders are carnivore, specifically insectivores. According to bioadvanced website, house spiders feed on
common indoor pests, such as roaches, earwigs, mosquitoes, flies, and clothes moths that can help
curtail disease spread in your house. Even so, it is not recommended touching a spider. They never seek
human contact, but their bite can be threatening. Spiders’ bite contained venom that caused different
reaction on other species.

One of species of spider that eats cockroach is Huntsman spider. It looks like a tarantula and feed insect
as its main food. It seems like a good sign when there is a huntsman spider around your house because
while you are sleeping at night, they are getting rid of any insects that may be hiding. They don’t like to
use their webs to catch their prey. They like to hunt alone, slowly stalk their prey until its close enough
to pounce on as shown on Picture 1.

Picture 1 Huntsman spider preyed a cockroach (fstikers.com)

Huntsman spiders are very scared of human. Their venom won’t hurt us. There is no need to spray
insecticide on them. They sheltered in bark and rocks to hide their eggs. Usually the female huntsman
spider lays 200 of her eggs inside an egg sack under a rock or behind bark. So, don’t move rocks
unnecessarily, there might be some spider eggs under them.

Huntsman spiders are nocturnal, like a cockroach.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241781153_Spider_Predation_in_Agroecosystems_Can_Spid
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http://www.fsticker.com/%E3%80%9014-facts%E3%80%91cockroach-control-getting-rid-of-
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https://www.bioadvanced.com/articles/controlling-spiders-house-friend-or-foe

https://radarpestcontrol.com.au/what-do-spiders-eat/

https://www.backyardbuddies.org.au/fact-sheets/huntsman