This spider can eat, but it can also get eaten. This animal eats Crickets, Frogs, Beetles, Bats, Mice, small Snakes, Lizards, and other small mammals. It can sometimes eat a bird but it's not usually what their in the mood for. I can tell you what they eat but I can also tell you what eats them. Surprisingly Humans eat them and Spider wasps. Spider wasps have a routine they do with the spider. The wasp paralyzes the spider, then the wasp brings the spider to the spider's own burrow and puts the humongous spider in it, and the the wasp lays eggs on the spider and when the wasps hatch they feed on the spider. Then the people in South america roast the skins of the spider. Now that's how the spider’s predators eat them but now let's learn how they eat their prey. The spider injects the prey with venom, but the venom doesn’t kill the animal it paralyzes the animal. Once they paralyze the prey they bring the prey back to the spider’s burrow and then feeds on the prey. Have you ever thought that the way a spider feeds on its prey is close to how Spider wasps feed on their prey.