Nutrition
Salamanders use their tongue to capture prey. They do this by carefully timing and then shooting out their tongue which is sticky enough to keep the prey on their tongue until it enters their mouth. (Zhanga and Wake)
E. lucifuga eat smaller insects, mites, ticks, isopods, earthworms,
and other soft exoskeleton organisms. (Animal Diversity Web 2002)
In a food web it is above small arthropods and insects but is possibly
consumed by larger cave mammals and other larger cave dwelling
species. (NPWRC 2014)
In order to produce more Salamanders, E. lucifuga, must eat, the information on how its body reproduces can be seen in our Reproduction page