By: Garrett Spiders My feature spider is the banana spider.

BANANAS I chose the banana spider because I like bananas. His color is bright yellowish with black and red. He looks poisonous but he isn't. He should be like,"hey, look I'm poisonous, not really." His cephalothorax is like a little Easter egg. His abdomen is the shape of a stretched out olive. It's like a football but thinner. His legs are like fishing hooks. They look kind of creepy. His legs are thin, like 1 centimeter thin. He has eight eyes. They are like in checker board form. His size is 5 inches. He could be the size of 2 index fingers!

SOME WHERE The Banana spider live in south eastern states. And lives in woods. They live in Australia, South Africa, Chile, South America and New Zealand.

THE WEB They are orb weavers. I don't know what orb weavers are. I just found it on the paper. I think it is a web builder. He doesn't use camouflage because he doesn't need it. My spider eats flying insects, flies, bees, wasp, moths and butterflies. Man he needs to go on a diet. Birds, lizards and toads eat spiders.

LIFE The life cycle of the banana spider. First it starts like an egg in an egg sac. Then they hatch "at first it looks like a million but there’s only about 500". Then fly away with their drag lines. It is called ballooning. Then they grow up and molt." Then it starts all over again".

What is a Spider? A spider is a thing that keeps our animals that we eat from starving. It is a part of our food cycle. Spiders keep the bugs from destroying the world. Some are good. Some are bad. That's just the way of life.

Parts of a spider 2 body parts 8 eyes cephalothorax abdomen pedipalps one of 8 legs spinnerets

good things about spiders bad things about spiders They suck humans blood as well. Some might hurt you. They eat grasshoppers. They don’t let insects rule the world.

Spiders make webs to trap bugs so they can eat. And they need to crawl some where. But…I also learned that spiders use their silk to fly away like a balloon.

These are three facts I learned about spiders: 1Some make webs. 2.They use their web to fly away. It is called ballooning. 3.Some can jump 10 times his own body length.

Spiders are awesome.

Glossary Abdomen – The back part of a spider. Ballooning –Sinning so much web you float away. Banana- A curved yellow fruit. Cephalothorax – The part that has the eyes on it. Dragline – A line that spiders use to come down to get there pray. Molt – To shed the outer skin at a certain time.

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