1. ARACHNID'S Scorpions,spiders, mites, and ticks
By:Andrew Lee, Noah Martens and Simon Netznick

2. Define Arachnid What is an Arachnid's characteristics?
Have a hard exoskeleton.
Jointed appendages (used to walk)
Have eight legs
Have no antennae
Some have parts that inject venom into others
Only have 2 body parts cephalothorax and abdomen

3. Scorpions

4. Scorpions in General Characteristics of a scorpion.
Some are poisonous.
They have a tail.
They prefer a hot climate.
They usually travel in colonies.
A small number of them are actually dangerous to humans.
Most if not all scorpions that can hurt humans are small.

5. Scorpions diet and defense/offence
What do scorpions eat?
They mainly eat any bug they can find.
How Scorpions defend themselves.
They don't really defend themselves they just kill the predator by stinging it or attacking it with their claws so basically their offense is their defense
They're offense is they stab their opponent with their pointed tails or attack with their claws. (even if they aren't poisonous) Then they can dig in.

6. The parts of a scropion What the parts are and do.
There is a part of scorpion called a telson this part lies on the end of its tail and holds the venom
This part is near the mouth and you may define as its “claws”

7. Here is an emperor scorpion

8. This is a very simple diagram of a scorpion

9. SPIDERS

10. Spiders in General Characteristics of a spider
All spiders spin silk,but most of them spin silk by using the spinnerets under the end of the abdomen so they are able to spin silk behind them.
Most have 8 eyes but some have less or none
They can only eat liquids because they lack chewing parts of their mouth

11. Different kinds of spiders
How many?
There are more then 40,000 different kinds of spiders throughout the world!
Famous spiders
The Biggest Spider in the world is called the Goliath spider it is 1foot long! And its fangs are 1in long!
The most poisonous spider in the world is the Brazilian wandering spider it can kill a mouse with oz. Of its venom!
Then of course the famous tarantula known as a big hairy spider.

12. A Spiders Defense and Offense
Defense & Offense
A spider uses these tactics to get away from a predator: it can run away,hide with its camouflage, or even scare its predator away.
Then it catches prey with it's web. Then waits till its prey is stuck it then goes up to it and injects venom into it so I cant get away. It wraps it's prey up in a web and saves it for later.
Some spiders just steal food from others

13. A Spider's Diet What different spiders eat Most spiders eat insects
Some eat birds or mammals
Some eat other spiders
Some eat worms and/or leaves

14. Parts of a spider The parts and what they do.
They have the same things as normal Arachnids like a: cephelathorax, abdomen, and eight legs.
They're fangs are called Chelicera.
They have Palps used for mating.
Most have eyes but some don't they most eyes spider can have is eight.

15. A Spider in a different habitat

16. A Spider and his prize

18. Mites

19. Mites in General General stuff about Mites.
They are small most being microscopic.
Only some are parasites. (mainly on birds and other mammals)
Feed on outer skin.
Pass on old and make new diseases.

20. Diseases mites spread The diseases
Scabies is one diseases and its symptoms are: inflammation of the skin,and dry and itchy skin
Then there are mites such as dust mites that trigger allergies.

21. A mites life cycle They start as eggs
When the hatch they have six legs
They grow into adult hood by shedding.

22. A mites diet A example of a mites diet from a dust mite
They enjoy eating your skin.
We shed 35,000 cells of skin every day,which is enough to feed almost 1 million mites.
They don't have a digestive system so they digest outside their body
Their food eventually=allergens

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24. A common mite

25. Ticks

26. Ticks in general All 'bout Ticks
They are tiny little bugs the crawl on your body find a spot they like and drink your blood (so like vampires but real).
Ticks spread many diseases the one most commonly known as lyme disease

27. Life cycle of a tick It starts in an egg Then, a larva with six legs
Then a eight legged larva called a nymph
Finally, it reaches adulthood

28. The life cycle of a tick Part II

29. A ticks diet What and how it eats
It eats by latching onto something or someone and using the thing they latched onto called a “host” to feed themselves.
A tick will only eat one thing and one thing only and I bet you can't guess it really no one can guess Well....since you cant guess its kinda BLOOD and only BLOOD!

30. A tick

31. THE CREDITS/BIBLIOGRAPHY
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32. THE CREDITS/BIBLIOGRAPHY PART II

33. SPECIAL THANKS
We would like to thank one person and one group of people without which this wouldn't have been possible
First we would like to thank Mr.Weidman cause we want a good grade.
And second we would like to thank the...HAPPY LLAMMA SOCITY FOR THEIR FUNDING OF THIS PROJECT!!!!

34. THE END!