{"id":16610,"date":"2022-10-18T22:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T22:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecofamilylife.com\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2022-10-18T22:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T22:44:04","slug":"how-do-spiders-drink-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecofamilylife.com\/garden\/how-do-spiders-drink-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Spiders Drink Water? | The Strange Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost every living thing needs water to survive, including spiders, but arachnids don\u2019t drink water in the same way humans and other mammals do. There are a few ways that spiders get water: from a water bowl, from their web, and from their food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, let\u2019s go into more detail about the different ways that spiders drink water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Spiders Drink Water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Spiders have a few different ways of staying hydrated. Here are some of the most common ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Drinking From a Pool of Water<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When they actually need to drink water, spiders usually drink from a shallow pool or puddle in the wild or from a water bowl in captivity. They approach the source of water, put their front legs in the water for balance, and submerge their entire mouthparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiders don\u2019t have mouths like mammals do. Instead, they use body parts called chelicerae that look like fangs or jaws. These chelicerae create a sucking motion when the spider is submerged in water so the animal can drink (similarly to how we drink water through straws). Then, the water is sucked into the mouth, which is located behind the chelicerae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes spiders a while to get water this way, and it\u2019s common to see them partially submerged in water for minutes and even hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out this video of a tarantula drinking from a container of water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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