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Spiders

My essay is on . I have chosen a few to report about. I
also have some basic info about in general. comprise a large,
widespread group of carnivorous arthropods. They have eight legs, can produce
silk, and usually have poison glands associated with fangs. More than 30,000
species of spiders are found on every continent except Antarctica in almost
every kind of terrestrial habitat and a few aquatic ones as well. Spiders range
in body size from about 0.5 mm (0.02 in) to 9 cm (3.5 in). The term spider is
derived from the Old English spinnan ( "to spin" ) referring to the group's use
of silk. Spiders make up the order Araneae in the class Arachnida, which takes
its name from the ...

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to Texas, and west to California. Found
in sheltered places indoors and outdoors it is about 10 mm (.4 in.) long and
has an orange-yellow body with a dark violin-shaped design on its back. Its
bite isn't usually fatal to humans, the venom destroys the skin and it may take
a few months to heal. The brown recluse is mostly active at night. it feeds on
small insects that it paralyzes with its poison.

The Black Widow

The black widow, Latrodectus mactans, is a poisonous spider of the
family Theridiidae, order Araneida. The female, about 1.3 cm (0.5 in) long, is
glossy black, densely clothed with microscopic hairs, and has a red hourglass
mark on the underside of the abdomen.
The male, which is rarely seen, is smaller than the female and has four
pairs of red marks along the sides of the abdomen. The black widow is found
worldwide in the warmer regions in every state in the United States except
Alaska and Hawaii; it lives in a variety of natural and domestic ...

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Added: 9/24/2004 10:56:45 PM
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