Can someone tell me interesting facts about spiders?
There are over 50,000 species of spiders, across over 100 families, across the entire world outside of the arctic zones. Spiders are most often classified by their fang shape, eye number and pattern, foot-claw shape, pattern of hairs, and the shape of the pedipalps (arms). Almost all spiders have venom, they use it to subdue their prey. The spiders that don’t are a small family (Uloboridae) of spiders called hackled orb-weavers which evolved to not need venom any more. The other spiders that don’t have venom is the small suborder Mesothelae, which are primitive spiders that have segmented abdomens (were no other spiders do) and only remain in the far east Asia. All spiders can make silk, but many use it differently. All spiders use silk to at least make eggsacks, where they hatch between 10-10,000 eggs in them, depending on the species. Netcasting spiders of the family Deinopidae make nets between their front four legs and snare insects. Jumping spiders of the family Salticidae use web
