Facts about Spiders

Facts and Information about Spiders!

• Fact One - They are not insects (Insects have three body parts and six legs)

• Fact Two - Arachnids have two body parts, the abdomen and the thorax
• Fact Three - They have 8 legs, have no wings or antennae
• Fact Four - There are more than 40,000 species
• Fact Five - All types (except Uloboridae) are poisonous!
• Fact Six - Males are usually smaller than females
• Fact Seven - They have either six or eight eyes
• Fact Eight - They have fangs, through which venom is ejected
• Fact Nine - Bites can be very painful and some can be fatal!
• Fact Ten - Webs get dirty and easily torn - new webs are often made every day!
• Fact Eleven - Old webs are rolled up and eaten
• Fact Twelve - At the tip of their abdomen, they have silk spinning glands called spinnerets
• Fact Thirteen - Not all spiders spin webs
• Fact Fourteen- They are oviparous, meaning their babies come from egg's
• Fact Fifteen - Little Miss Muffet from the nursery rhyme was a real person, the daughter of Dr Mouffet, he believed spiders had healing powers when eaten
• Fact Sixteen - Spider silk is twice as strong as steel on an equal weight basis
• Fact Seventeen - Spider silk is also the strongest material known
• Fact Eighteen - Arachnophobia is the term used for fear of spiders
• Fact Nineteen - Arachnophobia is one of the most common fears around the world
• Fact Twenty - Spiders have 8 legs with 6 joints, that means they have 48 knees!!
• Fact Twenty one - Spiders have very simple eye sight and really mainly on vibrations
• Fact Twenty Two - Spiders eat all different types of harmful insects and pests

• Fact Twenty Three - Spiders have an exoskeleton, this means their skeleton is on the out side

• Fact Twenty Four - The exoskeleton also means they maintain moisture and don't dry out
• Fact Twenty Five - The word spider come from an old English verb spinnan, this means "to spin"
• Fact Twenty Six - Tarantula bites are rarely fatal
• Fact Twenty Seven - A spiders egg contains as much DNA as four humans combined
• Fact Twenty Eight - Spiders cannot physically die of natural causes, theoretically, if they are kept safe they can live forever
• Fact Twenty Nine - Spiders can work in a vacuum or in hundreds of atmospheres of pressure flawlessly
• Fact Thirty - Some tarantula bites are like bee stings
• Fact Thirty One - Some female species of spiders sacrifice their bodies as food for their offspring
• Fact Thirty Two - Fried spiders taste like nuts
• Fact Thirty Three - Some male spiders pluk their webs like a guitar to attract female spiders
• Fact Thirty Four - Spiders have claws at the end of their legs
• Fact Thirty Five - Spiders can live for a long period of time without food and water
• Fact Thirty Six - Spiders have been on the planet for around 350,00 years
• Fact Thirty Seven - All spiders are predators
• Fact Thirty Eight - Spiders as a group, eat more insects than birds
• Fact Thirty Nine - A spider does not chew its food, the venom injected paralyzes and liquefies the prey which the spider sucks up
• Fact Forty - Jumping spiders have the best eyesight of all spiders
• Fact Forty One - The most dangerous spider in the world is the Australian Funnel spider
• Fact Forty Two - Spiders enemies are humans, weather, frogs, toads, lizards, birds, shrews, hunting beetles, ants, centipedes, parasitic flies, wasps, fungus and other spiders
• Fact Forty Three - Spiders rarely bite people and only do out of self defence
• Fact Forty Four - Scientist are researching spider silk as a possible replacement for Kevlar, material used in bullet-proof vest's
• Fact Forty Five - Bridge builders have been known to study spider webs for there remarkable ability to absorb tension
• Fact Forty Six - There is no correlation between the size of a spider and the degree of venom potency
• Fact Forty Seven - Some spiders live underwater all their life
• Fact Forty Eight - It can take a spider up to 3 hours to make an averaged sized web
• Fact Forty Nine - The world would be over run with bugs without spiders
• Fact Fifty - People eating spiders when they are a sleep is a myth

Spider Exterminators - Pest Control 
Generally speaking, people do not like spiders and most of all, do not want them in their homes! There are many forms of pest control and ways to exterminate spiders. There are spider exterminators, services, spider zappers, spider traps, spider repeller, spider catchers, spider traps for the removal and extermination process. Advice is available on subjects such as pest controls, pest prevention, spider catchers, spider exterminators and how to kill spiders. Some people would like to eliminate spiders from there homes completely, this can be very difficult as an open window on a summers day will allow spiders in, even opening your front door when entering and leaving will allow pesky spiders in. It is very easy to get rid of spiders by catching them yourself. Its best not to kill spiders as they are very important in controlling the level of other insects that are pests.