Black Bowley's Eating Habits

In addition to Black Bowley, the Dragon, and the Noisy Frogs (that keep Black Bowley from sleeping and necessitate him creeping into our house), Noisy Creek is populated with giant mechanical robot spiders.  Black Bowley 'kills the spiders by hitting them with his shovel' and then he 'breaks off the legs and eats them.  And guess what? They taste just like watermelon, not like spider.'