spiders

     

Mesothelae Mygalomorphae Araneomorphae  See table of families

Trivia about spiders

  • They ensnare their prey in silk, then finish them off with poison-dispensing fangs
  • Salticidae, the jumping types of these arachnids, have hairy bodies & feed on insects & on others of their kind
  • The top 10 most common phobias include the fear of heights, the fear of flying & the fear of these, aka arachnophobia
  • The Almanac wants them to be our national bug because they "eat bugs... yuckier than they are"
  • The larvae of the Ichneumon wasp develop inside the body of these arachnids