Fascinating Facts About Spiders By Sommer Edwards Traders Point Christian Academy Mrs. Miller’s Third Grade Class October 2009
Garden spiders build an orb web. The garden spider is very harmless to people.
camouflage - coloring that makes it easy to blend into nearby areas dragline - long silk threads that trail behind the spider molting - when the spider sheds its skin orb web - a circular web spun by a spider spiderlings - baby spiders spinnerets - area on a spider that makes silk web - pieces of silk put together by a spider
"First I dive at him. Next I wrap him up. Now I knock him out, so he'll be more comfortable.... flies, bugs, grasshoppers, choice beetles, moths, butterflies, tasty cockroaches, gnats, midgets, daddy long legs, centipedes, mosquitoes, crickets - anything that is careless enough to get caught in my web." p "I always give them a little anesthetic so they won't feel pain. It's a little service I throw in." p. 48
Female Black Widow Cobweb Spider Wolf Spider Tarantula
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