Scarlett, a Mexican red-knee tarantula, has been a pint-sized resident in my home for the past ten years. Although crickets are clearly her preferred choice, she can be a rather indiscriminate foodie, munching on everything from giant mealworms to earthworms. She has also been offered death’s head cockroach nymphs, but she repeatedly shuns them; in fact, she downright skitters away from them (screaming silent spider screams, I imagine). I guess she prefers her dinners to be less crunchy-on-the-outside…!