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Informations about Spiders

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Informations about Spiders

Spiders have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom, they are air-breathing arthropods. There are over 45,700 spider species and have 114 families. Unlike any other insects, spiders don’t have antennae. When spiders hunt for food, they inject their venom into their prey.

They mostly eat insects and other spiders, large species eat millipedes, woodlice, small lizards, frogs and birds. Spiders can be seen worldwide except in Antarctica. Female spiders can lay up to 3,000 eggs but unfortunately, there’s a chance that they will die after that. The smallest spider was the ‘Patu Digua’ that can reach up to 0.37 mm but the largest and heaviest spider are tarantulas that can reach up to 90 mm, there are small and big spiders.

Some spider species are Tarantulas, Black Widows, Funnel-web spiders, Wolf spiders, Camel spiders and more. But when you are bitten by a spider, you could be sick or have a fever and the wound where you have been bitten, it could rot or it would make it worse. There are also spiders that are very dangerou to other people.

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  1. You have found and included some very interesting facts about spiders for your audience.

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