Eat anything if hungry. 2 nd degree carnivore. Dead flesh, or carrion. Spiders, mostly wolf spiders. Reproduction and modes of courtship Sexually.
Males sing loudly and flash bunches of hair on their backs.
6-10 week incubation period. 75-200 at time. 30-80 shelled eggs at a time. Eggs, to larvae, live on dead meat until they mature into flies. Can eat up to three times their body weight a day.