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Digestive juices are running

Digestion is carried out internally and externally. Spiders secrete digestive fluids into their prey from a series of ducts in their chelicerae (fangs). These digestive fluids dissolve the prey's internal tissues, then the spider feeds by sucking the partially digested fluids out. Spiders consume only liquid foods. Many spiders will store prey temporarily. Web weaving spiders that make a shroud of silk to quiet their envenomed prey's death struggles (such as Redbacks) will generally leave them in these shrouds to be consumed at their leisure.

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Uploaded on January 9, 2013
Taken on February 3, 2010