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Abstract
We present field observations on foraging by solifuge arachnids (Namib Desert), laboratory studies on feeding trials using millipedes and butterfly pupae as potentially toxic prey (Kenya) and data on solifuges as prey, primarily of birds (Namib Desert and southwestern United States). These data are compared to previously published information on predator–prey relationships in Solifugae.
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Acknowledgements
RW owes a debt of gratitude to Mary Seely, to whom this work is dedicated, for support during work conducted in the Namib Desert funded through the Transvaal Museum. KR would like to thank Joseph Mugambi and the National Museums of Kenya for their support of the Kenya fieldwork (also supported in part by NSF BIO-DBI #0346378) and David Grandmaison of the AZGFD for supplying the burrowing owl pellets. The authors are also grateful to Martin Muma, Jack Brookhart, Tharina Bird, Lorenzo Prendini, and Paula Cushing for support along the way.