AMAZING spiders facts

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