CRAZY BUT TRUE FACTS ABOUT SPIDERS !!!

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SO I MADE THIS POST BECAUSE I'M A "NAT-GEO WILD" LOVER AND COULDN'T HELP MYSELF FROM SHARING NEW KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SOME CREATURES.

All spiders have fangs! And, yes, they almost all have venom in them. Lucky for us, most spider poison will not harm people because it is quite weak. Most spiders use their venom to paralyze its insect victim long enough to devour it. For other spiders, their poison is strong enough to kill their prey. Of course, this also comes in handy when being attacked by a predator.

black widow spider

There are a few spiders with poison strong enough to cause pain or even some nerve damage in humans. These spiders include the Black Widow and the Brown Recluse spiders. If left untreated, death could result.

People usually associate Tarantulas with the people-killing kind of poison. This is untrue. They have small poison glands and will be about as painful as a hornet or bee sting.

A tarantula spider

• How Many Eyes Do Spiders Have?

It depends on the spider! Some have up to 4 pairs of eyes, others have only 3 or 2 pairs. They are not compound eyes, like insects have and usually only one can form good images. The other eyes are only capable of detecting the direction from which the light is coming.

In the minds of most people spiders are dumped in the same set as other creepy crawlies, but they are not insects. They belong to the family of arachnids and are related to mites, scorpions and ticks

Spiders can be easily distinguished from insects because they have eight legs rather than six.

Spiders are the most numerous group of arachnids with 40,000 different species identified.

• Spiders Digest Their Food Before Eating

Spiders cannot eat solid food. Instead they inject, or cover their prey with digestive enzymes, and wait for it to turn into a nutrient broth and then suck it up using their pharynx.

Once inside their stomachs the broth is digested further and nutrients are absorbed.

• Most Spiders are Venomous

The vast majority of spiders produce neurotoxic venom with which they paralyse their prey. They have a pair of fangs, known as chelicerae, which are connected to a toxin gland. When the fangs stab their prey, they act as needles, injecting it with venom.

Most spider bites are no more dangerous to humans than a bee sting. In fact most spiders are too small, and their fangs too short to penetrate human skin. Of the 40,000 species, only about 200 have bites that are venomous to humans. In the US the most dangerous spiders are the black widow and the brown recluse spider.

Both species are actually very shy and they would much rather hide from humans than attack them. Unfortunately their hiding places can sometimes include places where a human will disturb them and they will bite in self defence.

Overall there are about 100 recorded deaths from spider bites in the last century. When you think of all the people who have died from other causes, this really represents a very small number.

So that's it guys, a few scary but true facts about our everyday household SPIDERS ...

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