Feeding Ticks to Tarantulas

[Zurchiboy]

Now that it's summer time and tick season were I live. I spend a lot of time off trail in the local forest preserve as a Invasive species monitor looking for areas with lots of bad plants. So I usually come home to find a few ticks on my pants. I usually feed them off to cellar spiders, and the grass spiders in our garden. has anyone fed a small tick to your slings?

 

[MiaWolf42]

I have not. Actually never thought about it since I only feed store bought or captive bred food.

Do you have photos if the cellar spiders eating them?

 

[kormath]

Same. Never feed WC prey, never know what they've been into. Wonder if lyme disease or tick fever affects spiders?

 

[Zurchiboy]

That a female that is usually feed ticks. That's it eating a cockroach. But I have a tick being stored to be feed to the next spider I find in our house. I'll take a photo of that when it happens.