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What is a Spider?
Photo: G. Bradley
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Safari Tip:
To help you identify house and garden spiders there's a beautifully
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Spiders belong to a group of animals known as 'Arachnids'. They have a two-part body, four pairs of legs and two pincers.
They don't have antennae, but instead have bristly hairs on their body and legs, which are used to pick up signals and messages. Spiders can actually taste things with their
feet.
All spiders are carnivorous, but they have small mouths, so in order to eat they inject deadly poison into their victims with their sharp fangs. The poison contains digestive fluids which turns the insides of their victims into a kind of soup. The spider then drinks their insides leaving just an empty skin.
Some spiders, spin webs to catch their food. Unfortunate victims, like flies, get trapped on the sticky strands of the web, and then the spider moves in for the kill. Other spiders hunt by stalking their prey, while some jump on their prey.
How do Spiders Spin Webs?
Why are Orb Web Spider Webs Symmetrical?
Is This a Deadly Spider?
Flying Spiders!
UK Safari Spider Section
Spiders
of Britain and N. Europe
The ultimate field guide to spiders. A must for all arachnophiles everywhere.
Superbly illustrated.
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