Question for the spider people...

I have (at least) two largish weaver spiders living in our shrubbery, that I wish to encourage to stay.

When I've kept carnivorous critters in the past, I had to feed them with live foods. Crickets, mealworms, feeder fish, etm.

Can I toss crickets, and/or mealworms, into a feral weaver spider's web, or would that be counterproductive?

Keep in mind both #Maleficent and #Aranea are roughly the size of my pinky finger tip.

⬆️ I would have added #SpidersOfMastodon, but there wasn't room. 🕷