15 interesting facts about spiders
- There are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
- Spiders have two body segments. The front segment is called the Cephalothorax. The second part of the body is called the Abdomen.
- A jumping spider can jump up to 25 times its own body length.
- There can be up to nearly 5 million spiders per hectare.
- Male spiders are almost always smaller than the females and are often much more colorful.
- Black Widow ’s bite is feared because its venom is reported to be 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s.
- The Dewdrop spider and other small spiders do not build a web but live near an orb web and eat the remains of left over insects.
- Approximately 2000 people are bitten each year by Redback Spide.
- A spider egg contains as much DNA as four humans combined.
- The largest spider ever observed by scientists was over 8 feet long and weighed in at 530 pounds.
- Some spiders, like Orb spiders, spin webs to catch flying insects. They make a new web every
- day and eat the old one.
- There are people in South America who eat tarantulas.
- Fear of spiders is called Arachnophobia. It is one of the most common fears among humans.
- Not all spiders spin webs.
