Hello and welcome to my Spider website

Hello, my name is Sam, I am aged 8 and welcome to my Spider website for the Virtual Science Fair. I have provided some useful and interesting information about my favourite spiders.

I decided to study spiders when I found an Orb Weaver on my balcony at home. I never knew what kind of spider it was so I looked it up on the internet. This was the start of my interest in spiders. Some people are scared of spiders but there is not much to be scared of. But some spiders do bite and are dangerous but only if they are threatened in some way.

Spider gallery and factsheet

Here is some spider information and pictures......

 

Information Facts

• Spiders are not insects. Insects have three body parts and six legs.
• Spiders have eight legs and two body parts, the abdomen and the thorax.
• Spiders have silk spinning glands called spinnerets, at the tip of their abdomen.
• Not all spiders spin webs. Spiders belong to the Arachnid family.
• There are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
• Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
• Most spiders have either six or eight eyes.
• Most spiders have fangs, through which venom is ejected.

 

 

5th May - News Flash: Spiders are getting Bigger!
Scientists now say that global warming could lead to BIGGER and may be MORE Spiders!!!