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	Spiders
		Spider silk is only about 1/200th of a millimetre in diameter and is so light that if a spider could spin a strand around the world it would weigh less than 6 oz.
		Spider eggs are roughly spherical, and about 1 mm in diameter; they are laid in a compact mass and covered to a greater or lesser extent with silk, forming a sac.
		Spiders are not actually able to fly but they are very light in weight and the pull of the slightest breeze on a short line of silk is enough to lift them aloft and carry them considerable distances.
	www.the-piedpiper.co.uk /th11f.htm (1640 words)

	Spitting spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spitting spiders (family Scytodidae) are spiders of the genus Scytodes and their relatives.
		They catch their prey by spitting a fluid that immobilizes it by congealing on contact into a venomous and sticky mass.
		Like the Sicariidae and Diguetidae these spiders are haplogyne (lack hardened female genitalia) and have six eyes, which are arranged as three pairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spitting_spider (185 words)

	Australian Museum - Spitting Spiders
		Spiders from the genus Scytodes are the picture of spider sociality.
		Remaining at spitting distance is especially important for the females, which carry their egg sacs (and the next generation) in their jaws.
		Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines.
	www.amonline.net.au /archive.cfm?id=870 (328 words)

	Wikinfo \| Spider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Spiders have eight legs compared to the insects' six, and their eyes (usually eight) are single lenses rather than compound eyes like those of most insects.
		Spiders reproduce by eggs laid in silk bundles called egg sacs, and the male (usually significantly smaller than the female) is likely to be killed by the female after the coupling, or sometimes before intercourse has occurred.
		The widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, hobo spiders, and yellow sac spiders are the dangerous ones among U.S. spiders.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=spider (2493 words)

	Spitting Spider
		This spider has been given the name of "Spitting Spider" because of it's method of attacking its prey.
		It is able to project a spray, over a distance of 10 millimeters, composed of gum and poison which cements the prey to the substrate, allowing the slow moving spider to close in and deliver its fatal bite.
		It is possible that the spider locates the direction and distance of its prey using the long trichobothria which are present on the distal ends of the metatarsi.
	www.the-piedpiper.co.uk /th11f(9).htm (84 words)

	EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER: Science Facts
		Spiders' legs are segmented and each leg has 7 segments: a coxa (attached to the cephalothorax), trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and finally a tarsus which may end in two or three small claws.
		The spider's blood is pale blue due to the presence of haemocyanin dissolved in the lymph.
		Spiders are found all over the world in all sorts of habitats from the sea shore to the dessert - on the ground, under rocks, on plants, in trees, in caves, on water.
	wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/explorit/science/spider.html (2747 words)

	SPIDERS: THEY'RE JUST NOT FOR HALLOWEEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Spiders build webs which are sticky so that their prey will become stuck and they can eat it.
		Wandering spiders have 2 claws on each foot between their claw is a pad of hair to give them a firm grip for walking on slippery surfaces.
		Spitting Spider---This spider traps insects by spitting on them with spit from its fangs like glue, and insects can't run away because they are stuck.
	outreach.rice.edu /~ynfante/spiders.html (556 words)

	spitting spider
		The spitting spider looks almost identical to the harmless puff spider, but the air sacs on its body serve a different purpose.
		Spitting spiders hunt in small packs and will attack even quite large animals, subduing them with poison, and then webbing the body to form temporary nests.
		These spiders make communal nests like puff spiders, but they tend to migrate more often, since they have a bad effect on the local wildlife and so the nests are generally smaller.
	rpglibrary.org /settings/gothick_empires/bestiary/spitting_spider.htm (269 words)

	Family Scytodidae
		The spitting spider belongs to the family of six-eyed spiders (Haplogynae) and stands out as one of a kind among the spider population.
		Contrary to most spiders its head-breast part is much larger than its abdomen as well as the head-breast part has a circular shape and is much higher at the end compared to the front.
		The spider sneaks very carefully towards its prey and at about 10 mm distance it stops and carefully measures the distance to its prey with one front leg without disturbing it.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ednieuw/Spiders/Scytodidae/Scytodidae.htm (380 words)

	Identifying and Misidentifying the Brown Recluse Spider
		Despite this and the lack of bodily pigmentary pattern, the woodlouse spider is commonly misidentified as a brown recluse.
		The marbled cellar spider, Holocnemus pluchei, is repeatedly confused by the public as a brown recluse despite the fact that the brown markings are on the ventral surface of the body.
		Although bites from the brown recluse and other recluse spiders can be a source of significant morbidity, diagnoses implicating these spiders as the culprits should be restricted to those regions of the country that support populations of the spiders.
	dermatology.cdlib.org /DOJvol5num2/special/recluse.html (1821 words)

	EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER: Science Facts
		Spiders' legs are segmented and each leg has 7 segments: a coxa (attached to the cephalothorax), trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and finally a tarsus which may end in two or three small claws.
		Spider silk is a protein that is formed as a liquid by silk glands and squeezed out of spinnerets like toothpaste from a tube.
		Spiders are found all over the world in all sorts of habitats from the sea shore to the dessert - on the ground, under rocks, on plants, in trees, in caves, on water.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/explorit/science/spider.html (2734 words)

	Vietnamese spiders
		There were several other attractive looking lynx spiders around, including one I photographed on the same flower as a red base Jezebel butterfly; luckily for the butterfly the spider was a bit too small to tackle such a large item of prey.
		Unlike the jumping spiders and lynx spiders, this one was hunting at night on a tree trunk, and I suspect that its flat shape is an adaptation to allow it to hide under the tree's bark during the daytime.
		Some spiders use their cerci to draw out and manipulate the silk which is extruded from the spinnerets on their belly (some silk is clearly visible coming out of the spinneret of the spider in the previous photo).
	www.richard-seaman.com /Insects/Vietnam/Spiders/Highlights/index.html (2365 words)

	TheTarantula's Burrow - British Spiders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The jumping spiders do not make a web, but are active hunters using well developed eyesight to find their prey which they then jump on to subdue.
		As with most spiders, jumping spiders have eight eyes, but in jumping spiders the front four are much larger than the rest and point forwards giving the animal stereo vision.
		Because of their good vision, a number of jumping spiders have courtship rituals involving the male waving brightly coloured palps to inform the female he wishes to mate.
	arachnophiliac.co.uk /burrow/british_spiders.htm (950 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Spitting spider
		Spitting spiders were possibly introduced from the tropics.
		Spitting spiders have a thorax that is often as big and round as their abdomen.
		Spitting spiders can be seen walking slowly across walls and floors in houses.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/354.shtml (196 words)

	Custom Pest Control, LLC
		Although these spiders are often large, hairy and formidable-looking, their bite is typically less harmful than a bee sting.
		Recluse spiders have six eyes arranged in three pairs in a semicircle on the forepart of the head.
		It is also known as the fl and yellow garden spider and sometimes the writing spider because of a thickened interwoven section in the web’s center.
	www.yourpestcontrol.com /spiders.htm (1557 words)

	How to stalk a spitting spider: on a mountain in the Philippines, the hunter risks becoming the hunted - Findings ...
		Portia labiata, a spider with the cunning of a mongoose, hunts and is hunted by Scytodes pallidus, a spider with the defenses of a spitting cobra.
		Web-building spiders such as Scytodes have much weaker eyesight and instead rely heavily on interpreting the signals from movement and variations in tension of the strands of their webs.
		Female spitting spiders are unusual in the degree of care they give their offspring.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_110/ai_80061806 (932 words)

	Spitting Spider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Any spider, its abdomen is bigger than the head.
		The Spitting Spider is mainly dangerous to humans.
		A female spider carries her eggs in a pouch under her thorax then in a nest.
	www.promotega.org /msc00002/spitting_spider.htm (102 words)

	Spitting spider - WoWWiki, the Warcraft wiki
		Spitting spiders are brown, fuzzy spiders that spend most of their time on the ground, though they can climb.
		Spitting spiders may spray poison in a 40-foot line or 20-foot con.
		Both effects last several minutes, usually enough for the spitting spiders to close on the potential victim.
	www.wowwiki.com /Spitting_spider (167 words)

	Checking the Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The high final number may be erroneous possibly due to a confusion with another family of spiders such as the purseweb spiders.
		Spitting spider: There are only 100 species of spitting spiders worldwide.
		However, the spiders are usually easy to find and found at all PIN sites so the number of spiders counted is as expected.
	www.jasonproject.org /jason6/spiders/spi_wr_c.html (610 words)

	Spiders quiz -- free game
		All of these spiders are harmful to humans except the...
		It is common in the wild for female spiders to eat the male after mating.
		Spitting spiders catch their prey by spitting sticky threads from large glands located under their carapace.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=155728 (112 words)

	brown recluse spider - Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik
		Males of the common southern house spider, Kukulcania (= Filistata) hibernalis (Hentz), are frequently confused with the brown recluse (Edwards 1983).
		The only other Florida spiders with an eye arrangement similar to Loxosceles are the spitting spiders of the genus Scytodes, but these spiders have a domed carapace, lack a violin-shaped carapace marking, and are not known to cause serious wounds in humans.
		huntsman spider, Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus), is misidentified as a brown recluse (Edwards 1979).
	creatures.ifas.ufl.edu /urban/spiders/brown_recluse_spider.htm (3778 words)

	Spiders - Weird Spiders
		Using a special rake on their chelicerae (jaws), these relatively large spiders dig burrows as deep as three feet.
		The spider lines the burrow and lid with thick silk, then cuts around the opening, leaving one side still attached, to fashion a snugly-fitting door which is almost invisible--even to arachnologists.
		Spitting spiders are found mostly in the warmer regions of the world and have only six eyes and a curiously domed cephalothorax under which are two large glands.
	sciencebulletins.amnh.org /biobulletin/biobulletin/story1109.html (213 words)

	Spiderzrule
		These spiders are harmless to man although there have been complaints where this comical, engaging animal has been accused of nasty bites.
		The spider was dead when I found him, so I put him on an old TV tray and got a nice, creepy picture.
		This spider was identified today, 4th September 2005, by Queensland Museum who wrote: "As you have noted from the behaviour of this spider, it is known as a Jumping Spider (Genus Salticidae).
	www.spiderzrule.com /jumpingspider.htm (3492 words)

	Science Now
		He was, however, amazed by the behavioral traits he witnessed when he encountered a new species in the spider family Scytodidae, the members of which have earned the nickname “spitting spiders” by literally spitting for their supper.
		Mature males, mature females, and juveniles all participate in the prey capture, and they share the fruits of their labor quite freely‹even spiders that did not assist in the tackle are permitted to partake in the meal.
		Miller was therefore surprised to find that in the 61 colonies of social spitting spiders he documented, the sex ratio was almost equally split between males and females.
	www.calacademy.org /ccount/click.php?id=133 (782 words)

	Super-powered spiders \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The spitting spider stuns its prey by shooting it with a nasty glob of venom and silk.
		In many spider species, males have special hooks on their legs to push the female spider's fangs back, just in case she is thinking of dinner instead of love.
		Charlotte, an orb-weaving spider in E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" (1952), said it best: "I don't know how the first spider in the early days of the world happened to think up this fancy idea of spinning a web, but she did, and it was clever of her, too.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0528/p22s02-hfks.html (1400 words)

	Spiders of NW-Europe
		Since most spiders are very small, you need a magnifying glass or a camera to study them or to reveal their beauty.
		The spider often seen in the US is the Argiope aurantia (Family Araneidae).
		Animals with 4 pairs of legs such as spiders belong to the class called Arachnida and animals with 3 pairs of legs such as insects belong to the class called Insecta.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm (1230 words)

	Spitting Spiders
		The gland is very large relative to the size of the spider.
		View high-speed video of fang dynamics during an episode of spitting.
		View high-speed video of "silk" ejection during spitting episodes.
	faculty.vassar.edu /suter/1websites/spittingspider (126 words)

	Spidermania
		Wolf spider mothers lay their eggs in a large sac, which can be nearly as large as their bodies.
		Some of the flower crab spiders can even change their color over 2-3 days, depending on the color of the flower on which they are resting.
		The Spitting Spider has poor vision and is very slow, so it waits until night, when all the insects are at rest, to start its hunt.
	www.tburg.k12.ny.us /mcdonald/spid.htm (2322 words)

	Spiders at Brazos Bend 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the spiders with a similar arrangement is the somewhat hazardous Brown Recluse, loxosceles reclusa.
		I rotated the jeans as the spider ran, watching it long enough to identify it as another (or maybe the same?) Spitting Spider.
		This is perhaps further proof for the silk properties of the spit, with the spider using it as a tether.
	users2.ev1.net /~rickubis/brazspidr7.html (1812 words)

	Simply Spiders Photo Gallery by lejun at pbase.com
		I found a spider or something when I was in my car drving and it came in through the window andpulsating in.
		It was the size of a large grand daddy spider, with a round fl body the size of a pea with fl legs with 6 or 8 long fl legs and each and each leg had three segmants and at the joint of each segmant was a round bead-like white ball.
		We were trying to determine whether a spider in our house was a brown recluse or a spitting spider, but no one had a clear picture of a spitting spider.
	www.pbase.com /lejun/spiders (980 words)

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