Spiders Are Not Insects
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Spiders Are Not Insects
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Hunting spider
You can find spiders almost anywhere. Some spiders live in hot, humid rain forests.
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tarantula
Others live in hot, dry deserts.
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House spider
They live in water and woods, trees and gardens – and in people’s homes.
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spotted fishing spider
Not many animals have been around as long as spiders.
Spiders are not insects.
They belong to a group of animals called arachnids.
Arachnids have eight legs. Insects have only six.
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Ant lion
Arachnids do not have wings. Insects do.
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hairs on spider leg jumping spider
Spiders use hairs on their bodies to sense the world around them.
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milkweed longhorn beetle
Insects sense things with feelers, called antennae, that grow on their heads.
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Crab spider
Some spiders are so tiny that you can hardly see them.
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frog-eating spider
And some are big enough to eat birds and mice and frogs.
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Mexican red-legged tarantula
The biggest ones belong to a family of hairy spiders called tarantulas.
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brown recluse spider
Most spiders are poisonous, but only a few kinds are dangerous.
Spider bites can hurt – so it’s best not to touch them.
Only two spiders in North America are very dangerous to people:
the brown recluse spider…
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Female black widow spider
… and the female black widow.
If you see a spider marked with a red hourglass – keep away from it!
You don’t want a black widow to bite you.
Female spiders are usually more poisonous than males – and bigger.
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net-casting spider
Spiders can move quickly.
Some baby spiders can travel through the air.
They cling to silk threads that are blown by the wind. This is called ballooning.
The silk comes from the spiders’ own bodies. All spiders produce silk.
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Many kinds of spiders use their silk to spin webs.
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tunnel spider
Different kinds of spiders weave webs of different designs.
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Monarch butterfly caught in web
Webs are sticky. An insect that lands on a spiderweb becomes trapped.
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garden spider and dragonfly
Then the spider may swing on a thread of silk toward the insect… inject it with poison… and eat it.
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garden spider and grasshopper
Sometimes spiders use their silk to wrap up a trapped insect to eat later.
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bird spider (tarantula)
Spiders that don’t weave webs are called hunting spiders. They go out looking for their prey. Tarantulas are hunting spiders.
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jumping spider
So are jumping spiders, which attack insects by jumping on them.
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golden silk spider
Some spiders even eat other spiders.
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garden spider
Spiders are not easy to like.
But spiders do help people by eating insects that are harmful to plants or those that carry disease.