Julie K. Lundgren - Creepy But Cool Spiders

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2014 Blue Door Publishing, Florida. All rights reserved.

e-book 978-0-9860553-3-1

e-pub 978-0-9860553-9-3

About The Author:

Julie K. Lundgren has an unending curiosity about animal

adaptations, spiders, and creepy coolness. She frequently

writes about science and nature as a way to help people

connect to their environment and learn about all the

unbelievable phenomena that happen in the natural world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INSECT OR SPIDER?

Spiders have eight legs and two

body sections. Spiders are arachnids ,

not insects. An insect has six legs and

three body sections.

SPIDER BODY SECTIONS

abdomen

cephalothorax

What beautiful eyes, and eyes and eyes

Many spiders have eight eyes.

Good eyesight? Not usually.

They can sense light and dark.

Creepy But Cool Close - Up

jumping spider

THE HAIRY TRUTH

Spiders can be tiny, huge, smooth,

hairy, slim, or fat.

The tiny jumping spider can t on a ngernail.

The Goliath bird - eating tarantula, the worlds

largest spider, barely ts on a dinner plate.

Some spiders hairs increase the sense

of touch. Others sense sound waves,

a bit like little ears.

Hairs cover the

Green bottle blue

tarantula.

Spiders have different colors and

patterns. Some blend in. We call

this camouage .

Beach wolf spiders hide

in plain sight.

Smooth ower crab

spiders match owers.

DEADLY HUNTERS

All spiders are carnivores . Many hunt

insects, while others eat mice, birds, or

other spiders.

banded argiope spider

Some spiders spin webs to catch their

prey , using silk from their spinnerets . A

spiders spinnerets can make different

types and thicknesses of silk.

spinnerets

tarantula

Different kinds of spiders make different

kinds of webs.

Messy webs:

Strands in no

order

Sheet webs:

a layer of silk, often

on top of grass or bushes

Funnel webs:

like sheet

webs, except with a central

tunnel where the spider hides

Orb webs:

sticky circles inside

of circles hanging between

twigs, buildings, or other

structures

Spiders that dont use webs ambush

their prey.

Fishing spiders launch underwater attacks on

passing insects or small sh.

Most spiders dont eat their prey whole.

Some use their fangs to inject venom .

Venom turns the insides of prey into

liquid, so the spider can drink it like soup.

fangs

LIFE CYCLE

Spiders wrap their eggs in a silk egg sac.

Some spiders may lay only one or two eggs.

Some may lay over two thousand!

When they hatch,

the spiderlings look

like tiny adults.

Growing spiders molt several times.

Their hard exoskeletons slip off to reveal

new, larger ones.

Most spiders live only one or two years.

Large spiders like tarantulas can live

more than twenty years.

Many people have these creepy but cool

predators as pets. Would you?

Mexican Red Knee Tarantula

LABEL THE SPIDER

Match each word below with the correct box:

abdomen

cephalothorax

legs

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