Spiders lay eggs within a silken egg sac that is often ball shaped and either hidden in the web or carried by the female. Spiders may produce several egg sacs, each containing several hundred eggs. One female may produce as many as 3000 eggs in a series of several sacs over a period of time. Eggs may hatch a few weeks later. Spiders reach adulthood in one year. For a spider to grow, it must shed its skin, usually four to twelve times before maturity. Most spiders in Canada have a one or two year life cycle. In grassy fields, spider populations in Canada may reach over two million per hectare.
As spiders digest food externally, they ingest liquids only. After catching prey, they bite holes into the body wall and exude enzymes into and onto prey. The enzymes convert the prey’s tissues to a soup, which is then sucked up.
All spiders are poisonous to some degree, even those few species that have poison glands partly modified into glue spitting glands. Venom is injected into the prey to either immobilize or kill it. Black widow spiders, which are amongst the most poisonous of spiders, are also found in southern Ontario. Their venom is about 200 times as poisonous as that of a rattlesnake per unit volume.
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