This adult female jumping spider (Phidippus princeps) from Greenville County, South Carolina, was filmed as it fed upon a captured fly. Note how this spider chewed its prey with its fanged chelicerae. The sharp-edged fangs are opposed by teeth at the end of the chelicerae. Chewing (maceration) alternated with suction (feeding) as well as regurgitation of digestive fluids into the prey.
