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Spiders
Arachnida (Arachnids), with approzimately 39,500 identified species, are commonly known as spiders. All spiders are both carnivorous and venomous, but only a very small percentage are potentially dangerous to humans. Ask and answer questions here about these eight legged fascinating wonders.
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Why are Spider filaments stronger than steel but easily destroyed?
Spiders silk is stronger than steel wire of the same weight. Very fine steel wire is easily broken by hand, but if you could make spider silk of the same weight as normal steel wire it would be much harder to break.
How do you describe a garden spider?
Garden spiders are usual brown in colour, any shade from pale brown to rusty/reddish brown. They have a fat oval body probably about as big as a finger nail, when fully grown, with a white cross on their back. Garden spiders have fairly short legs and build quite large neat webs.
What does it mean if have seen 5 spiders in one week?
Then you need to get bug spray and spray around your house and around doors, small tight areas, due to the cause that the spiders may mate and spread more and more. If you don't spray around your house then they will multiply and you wont be able to stop them, unless you get a exterminator.
What are the symptoms of getting stung by a wolf spider your grandmother just got stung?
Mostly swelling. Their venom isn't lethal, but if the swelling does not go down with an ice pack and/or she's feeling feverish or not well in general, see a doctor.
What is the myth about killing daddy long leg spiders?
The animal which most biologists call "daddy-long-legs", is a spider, Pholcus phalangioides, which belongs to the spider family Pholcidae, order Araneida, class Arachnida. The CSIRO handbook follows this usage: Naumann, Ian 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names: common and scientific names for insects and allied organisms of economic and environmental importance. CSIRO.
How many spiders crawl over you in the night?
an avrige of 8 spiders do
I like to lay awake at night and count the spiders that crawl over me. It seems natural to me since I don't have any sheep in my room (not that there's anything wrong with having sheep in one's room; I'm not judging anyone). Usually I count zero spiders before I fall asleep, but the highest number I've ever counted crawling across me was one. Then I jumped up screaming and thrashing, and I'm afraid I may have hurt the poor little spider. Since then I haven't counted any others, but I still keep trying.
Furrow spiders belong to the genus Larinioides.
These spiders weave orb webs. No spiders that weave orb webs are dangerous to humans.
Most spiders use "ballooning" as their dispersion method, many spider-lings hatch from the egg sack, climb up high somewhere, and release a long string of silk that catches the wind and they go from there, not necessarily migrating but definitely spreading.
What are the adaptations of a brown recluse spider?
The general body plan of an arachnid consists of a cephalothorax (head area), the opisthosoma (abdomen), chelicerae and fangs, pedipalps, eight legs (all of which connect on the cephalothorax), and spinerettes (found on the opisthosoma).
What spider has a skull on its back?
A false widow spider is a spider that is known to have a skull depicted on its back. This spider also has orange legs.
Corn Spiders or Argiope aurantia are harmless to humans.
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How do spiders change your personality?
Spiders cannot change your personality though they can affect the brain. Some spiderbites contain a neurotoxin and it can trick the brain into giving you muscle spasms, weak legs... etc. Well hope I helped!
What is something special about Black Widow?
The females are the larger sex, and after mating, the female Black Widow will cannibalize the male. Sometimes the male gets away, but not often. And if he does get away, he can only reproduce one more time before he either dies or is eaten by the second female spider.
What are the biggest species of spider in the US?
Orb weavers comprise a huge family of spiders, with 3500 species worldwide, 180 of which call North America home. These spiders vary greatly in color, shape and size, measuring between 2 - 30mm (1/16 -- 1 1/4") long. They have eight eyes arranged in two horizontal rows of four eyes each. The males are generally much smaller than the females and commonly lack the showy coloring of their fairer sex. They often spin their own smaller orb web near an outlying portion of the female's, and I've noticed most males give the females wide berth. Indeed, I rarely see male orb weavers, they are so reclusive.
