• There are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
• Spiders belong to the Arachnid family.
• Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
• Each kind of spider knows how to spin a certain pattern of a web when it hatches.
• The spider begins spinning its web in the evening or early morning before the flying insects get air borne.
• Since silk is made out of protein, a spider eats the used silk of an old web before spinning a new one.
• Not all spiders spin webs.
• Spiders have eight eyes, eight legs, two body parts, outside skeletons, and fangs. They do not have antennas or wings.
• Male’s spiders are smaller than the females.
• Spiderlings are baby spiders that hatch from silk covered egg sacs.
• The web building spiders have two or more pairs of glands, called spinnerets, in their abdomens that produce liquid silk.
• Spiders that spin an orb shaped web are classified as Orb Web Spiders.
• The spider body oil keeps it from sticking to its own web.
• The Black Widow and the Brown Recluse spiders inject poison when they bite.
• Spiders eat millions of insects a year.
• Spiders digest their food outside their body. After the prey is captured, spiders release digestive enzymes from their intestinal tract and cover the insect.
• A strand from some spiders is as strong as a steel wire of the same size. On an equal weight basis, spider silk is twice as strong as steel
• The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population.
• There can be up to 5 million spiders per hectare.
• The combined length of thread in a spider's web is about 20 to 60 m and it can take the spider up to 3 hours to make a web.
• A jumping spider can jump up to 25 times its own body length.
• Fear of spiders is called Arachnophobia. It is one of the most common fears among humans.

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