On the second day they are dead, everyone irrecoverably dead.
The Epeira, therefore, does not incontinently kill her prey with her delicate bite; she poisons it so as to produce a gradual weakness, which gives the blood-sucker ample time to drain her victim, without the least risk, before the rigor mortis stops the flow of moisture.
The meal lasts quite twenty-four hours, if the joint be large; and to the very end the butchered insect retains a remnant of life, a favourable condition for the exhausting of the juices.

Once again, we see a skilful method of slaughter, very different from the tactics in use among the expert paralysers or slayers.

Here there is no display of anatomical science.

Unacquainted with the patient's structure, the Spider stabs at random.

The virulence of the poison does the rest.
There are, however, some very few cases in which the bite is speedily mortal.