Spiders Sentence Examples
She shuddered and asked again, "Are there more spiders on the planet?"
A kid who stole matches so he could light spiders on fire and watch how far they ran.
She's a good cook, but she's afraid of spiders, and she always loses things.
Kiera was bound to be traumatized until she saw for herself there were no monster-sized spiders on Romas's home planet.
Although there is no direct genetic affinity between the spiders of these two groups, an interesting parallelism in their habits may be traced.
Perhaps, if Romas kept the spiders away and Evelyn could make the days pass quickly, she might survive her visit.
He'll protect you from the bad people and spiders.
So I'm going to be stuck on a planet far away without a bus ticket home surrounded by spiders the size of basketballs and being bossed around by Neanderthal barbarians who forbid me to talk and lock me in the bathroom!
And if there were more of those monstrous spiders on board, she probably did not want to wander around opening doors at random.
If an aperture for ingress and egress, for purposes of feeding, were left in the wall of such a chamber, there would arise in a rudimentary form what is known as the tubular nest or web; and the next important step was possibly the adoption of such a nest as a permanent abode for the spider., Some spiders, like the Drassidae and Salticidae, have not advanced beyond this stage in architectural industry; but next to the cocoon this simple tubular retreat - whether spun in a crevice or burrow or simply attached to the lower side of a stone - is the most constant feature to be observed in the spinning habits of spiders.
AdvertisementIts whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.
In my dream … the aliens … took me … to a planet ruled by spiders!
The only thing that seemed to click was Evelyn's insistence that there were no spiders.
Can you think of anything else but spiders?
Except in the extreme north and south, and on the tops of the highest mountains, where there is no insect life as food supply, spiders are found all over the world, even in isolated oceanic islands.
AdvertisementThere is no doubt that the primary influence that has guided the evolution of the architecture of the burrowing spiders has been that great necessity for the preservation of life, avoidance of enemies and protection from adverse physical conditions like rain, cold or drought.
Snares of another type consisting of a tangled mass of threads amongst which the spiders pick their way with ease, but which are impassable to insects, are spun by members of the Theridiidae and Pholcidae; but by common consent the so-called orbicular web, so characteristic of the Argyopidae but by no means confined to them, is regarded as manifesting the greatest perfection of instinct in snare-spinning.
By trailing a thread behind them spiders are able to drop from any height to the ground and to retrace their steps with certainty to a particular spot.
The possession of silk-glands has also profoundly influenced the geographical distribution of spiders and has enabled them to cross arms of the sea and establish themselves on isolated oceanic islands which most of the orders of Arachnida are unable to reach.
This is effected by the so-called habit of "ballooning" practised by very young spiders, which float through the air, often at great altitudes, in the direction of the prevalent winds.
AdvertisementAs a commercial product spider-silk has been found to be equal, if not superior, to the best silk spun by lepidopterous larvae; but the cannibalistic propensities of spiders, making it impossible to keep more than one in a single receptacle, coupled with the difficulty of getting them to spin freely in a confined space, have hitherto prevented the silk being used on any extensive scale for textile fabrics.
The methods of catching prey adopted by spiders are extremely varied.
Spiders which spin no snare are dependent for capturing prey for the most part upon their quickness or powers of lying concealed.
All spiders are oviparous.
The number of eggs produced at a time varies enormously according to the species, from about half a dozen, more or less, in some ant-mimicking Attidae or jumping spiders to many hundreds in the larger orbicular-webbed spiders of the family Argyopidae.
AdvertisementAs a rule terrestrial spiders guard the cocoon in the permanent burrow, as in the trap-door spiders, or in the silken retreat which acts as a temporary nursery, as in the Salticidae.
In these spiders, too, the newly-hatched young shift for themselves as soon as they emerge from the cocoon; in others that guard the cocoon the young stay for a longer or shorter time under their mother's protection, those of the wandering Lycosidae climbing on her back to be carried about with her wherever she goes.
Species of other families (Lycosidae, Clubionidae) may live for a few seasons, hibernating in the soil or amongst dead leaves; and examples of the larger spiders (Aviculariidae) have been kept alive in captivity for several years.
Other webspinning spiders (Tegenaria) have somewhat similar habits; and the male of the park-web spider (Atypus), one of the Mygalomorphae, taps the walls of the tubular web of the female before daring to bite a hole in it and descend into her burrow.
Most curious of all is the courtship of the males of some species of Salticidae, or jumping spiders, which are decorated with plumes or coloured stripes or iridescent patches.
All spiders possess a pair of poison-glands, one in each of the chelicerae or mandibles and opening by means of a duct at the tip of the fang.
Many of the species of these spiders, moreover, are very conspicuously coloured, being either wholly black or black relieved by fiery red spots, forcibly suggesting that they are warningly coloured.
So far as is known, however, only the large spiders belonging to this group possess this special means of defence, and in many other species this is accompanied by highly-developed stridulating organs resembling those of rattlesnakes and scorpions in function.
Others again, like Gasteracantha and Acrosoma, belonging to the Argyopidae, are armed with sharp and strong abdominal spines, and these spiders are hard-shelled like beetles and are spotted with black on a reddish or yellow ground, their spines shining with steel-blue lustre.
The majority of spiders, however, are soft-skinned and succulent, and are tasty morsels for insectivorous reptiles, birds and mammals.
Spiders of various families will, when alarmed, lie absolutely still with legs tucked up and allow themselves to be pushed and rolled, and handled in various ways without betraying that they are alive by the slightest movement.
The extent to which procryptic coloration and instincts favouring concealment are developed indicates that generation after generation spiders have been subjected to persecution from enemies.
No doubt large numbers are devoured by insectivorous birds, mammals and reptiles, but the mortality due to them and other foes sinks into insignificance beside that caused by the persecution of hymenopterous insects of the families Ichneumonidae and Pompilidae, especially of the latter, many species of which systematically ransack the country for spiders wherewith to feed their young in the breeding season.
It is no exaggeration to say that countless thousands of spiders of all families are annually destroyed by these insects, and there is no reason to doubt that destruction on at least as great a scale has been going on for centuries, too many even to guess at.
Hence it is probable that no factor has had a greater influence than these wasps in moulding the protective instincts and habits of spiders.
In several families of spiders, but principally in those like the Clubionidae and Salticidae, which are terrestrial in habits, there are species which not only live amongst ants, but so closely resemble them in their shape, size, colour and actions that it requires a practised eye to distinguish the Arachnid from the insect.
Now the Pompilidae or mason wasps provision their cells with insects of many different kinds, as well as with spiders; but, of the hundreds of species of these wasps that have been described from different parts of the world, only one is known to use ants for this purpose; and this species is not one that preys upon spiders.
So, too, does it appear that ants are entirely immune to the attacks of Ichneumonidae, which destroy hosts of other insects and of spiders by laying their eggs upon their bodies.
But since ants are not persecuted by these two families of Hymenoptera, the greatest enemies spiders have to contend with, it is evident that mimicry of ants is of supreme advantage to spiders.
Ants, however, are not the only animals mimicked by spiders.
The exact extent, however, to which each particular class of enemy has affected the protective habits and attributes of spiders is by no means always evident; and it is impossible to discuss the question in detail within the limits of a short article.
As the tide rises the spiders take refuge in crevices and spin over their retreat a sheet of silk, impervious to water, beneath which they oie in safety with a supply of air until the ebb exposes the site again to the sun.
The habits of certain other spiders suggest the origin of the perfect adaptation to aquatic conditions exhibited by Desis and Argyroneta.
The nature of the integument and its hairy clothing in all spiders enables them to be plunged under water and withdrawn perfectly dry, and many species, even as large as the common English house-spider (Tegenaria), are so lightly built that they can run with speed over the surface of standing water, and this faculty has been perfected in genera like Pirata, Dolomedes and Triclaria, which are always found in the vicinity of lakes or on the edges of rivers and streams, readily taking to the water or running down the stems of water plants beneath its surface when pursued.
Geologically, spiders date from the Carboniferous Period, Arthrolycosa and others from the coal beds of Europe and North America being closely allied to the existing genus Liphistius.
Remains of spiders from the Baltic amber beds of Oligocene age and from nearly coeval fluviatile or lacustrine deposits of North America belong to forms identical with or closely related to existing genera, thus proving the great antiquity of our present spider fauna.
The term, however, is somewhat elastic in its current use, and students of centipedes and spiders are often reckoned among the entomologists.
Spiders, caterpillars and grasshoppers are, he said, stung in their chief nerve-centres, in consequence of which the victims are not killed outright, but rendered motionless and continue to live in this paralysed condition for several weeks, being thus available as food for the larvae when these are hatched.
It would seem then that by the stinging of insects or spiders their powers of resistance are overcome and their escape prevented; that some are killed outright and some paralysed is merely an incidental result.
The bite of the scorpion and of the numerous spiders produces no serious effects.
The second has for its pair of appendages the small pair of limbs which in all living Arachnids is either chelate or retrovert (as in spiders), and is known as the chelicerae.
It is very probable that in Scorpio they do not serve merely to secrete a digestive fluid (shown in other Arthropoda to resemble the pancreatic fluid), but that they also become distended by the juices of the prey sucked in by the scorpion - as certainly must occur in the case of the simple unbranched gastric caeca of the spiders.
We must be content to point out that it seems that the spiders, the pedipalps, and erit Pdv' stir' After Beck, Trans.
Although the prae-oral pair of appendages in the higher Arachnida is usually chelate, it is not always so; in spiders it is not so; nor in many Acari.
No noteworthy fossil spiders are known; the best-preserved are in amber of Oligocene age.
Morphologically, the spiders are remarkable for the concentration and specialization of their structure, which is accompanied with high physiological efficiency.
The larger species of Bird's Nest Spiders (Avicularia), the opisthosoma of which is as large as a bantam's egg, undoubtedly attack young birds, and M'Cook gives an account of the capture in its web by an ordinary house spider of a small mouse.
Spiders form at least two kinds of constructions - snares for the capture of prey and nests for the preservation of the young.
Like the scorpions the spiders have a special tendency to cannibalism, and accordingly the male, in approaching the female for the purpose of fertilizing her, is liable to be fallen upon and sucked dry by the object of his attentions.
For an account of the courtship and dancing of spiders, of their webs and floating lines, the reader is referred to the works of M'Cook (30) and the Peckhams (31), whilst an excellent account of the nests of trap-door spiders is given by Moggridge (32).
The Opiliones seem to lead on from the Spiders to the Mites.
Zittel, American edition of his Palaeontology (the Macmillan Co., New York), where ample references to the literature of Trilobitae and Eurypteridae will be found; also references to literature of fossil Scorpions and Spiders; 23.
Spiders are represented by a very large number of species, some of which are beautifully coloured.
Spiders abound, from a giant species to one of the minutest dimensions, and the tree-bug is always ready to make a destructive lodgment in any sickly tree-stem.
They make burrows wherein they place insects or spiders which they have caught and stung, laying their eggs beside the victim so that the young larvae find themselves in presence of an abundant and appropriate food-supply.
They are recognizable by their slender and elongate hind-legs; many of them provision their burrows with spiders.
It was he who compared laws to spiders' webs, which catch small flies and allow bigger ones to escape.
Birds and mammals take the first place; the leading collections devote a good deal of attention to reptiles and batrachians; fishes and aquatic invertebrata are most often to be found only when there are special aquaria, whilst non-aquatic invertebrates are seldom to be seen and at most consist of a few moths and butterflies, spiders, scorpions and centipedes, molluscs and crustaceans.
Spiders are also represented by a large number of genera and species, the most dreaded being the venomous " tarantula " and the savage " mygale."
The webs and nests, &c., formed by spiders are also of silk.
Experiments to test distastefulness have also been made with various kinds of insectivorous Arthropoda, like spiders and mantises.
Nevertheless, as explained below, it seems to be highly probable that ant-imitating insects and spiders, when the resemblance is dependent to a greater extent upon size, shape and movement than upon tint, have acquired their mimetic likeness especially to protect them from the attacks of such insect-enemies as predaceous wasps of the family Pompilidae, flies of the family Asilidae, and from socalled parasitic hymenoptera of the family Ichneumonidae, as well as from other insect-eating Arthropods.
But the likeness probably goes deeper than superficial resemblance that appeals to the eye, for spiders which distinguish flies from bees by touch and not by sight, treat drone-flies after touching them, not in the fearless way they evince towards bluebottles (Calliphora), but in the cautious manner they display towards bees and wasps, warily refraining from coming to close quarters until their prey is securely enswathed in silk.
Spiders furnish numerous instances of mimicry.
Spiders on the contrary have no antennae, no separate head," an unsegmented abdomen and an additional pair of legs.
In the majority of ant-imitating spiders the forepart of the cephalothorax is constricted on each side to resemble the neck of the insect, and in many cases the similarity is increased by the presence of a stripe of white hairs which has the optical effect of cutting out an extra piece of integument, exactly as occurs in analogous cases in insects.
Added to this the spiders commonly copy to the life the mode of progression and the restless activities of their models.
Many other spiders belonging to the Theridiidae and Linyphiidae also mimic ants; but it is needless to enumerate them, the most perfect examples of this phenomenon being found in the families Clubionidae and Salticidae.
Ant-mimicking spiders have been seen now and again to devour their models.
It has therefore been suggested by some and taken for granted by others that the resemblance comes under the category of aggressive mimicry and that the ants are deluded by this resemblance into regarding the spiders as members of their own species.
That the ants do not destroy them is certain; but that they are deceived by the superficial similarity of the spiders to themselves is highly improbable, for these insects are capable of distinguishing a strange ant belonging to the same species if it comes from another colony.
Hence it may be inferred that the insects which imitate ants profit in the same way that spiders do from this form of mimicry.
An example of the latter occurs in Singapore where the vicious red spinning-ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) is mimicked by the larva of a Noctuid moth and by spiders belonging to two distinct families, namely, Saltiicus plataleoides (Salticidae) and Amyciaea forticeps (Thomisidae), there being no reason to suppose that either the moth larva or the spiders are protected forms. Mimetic aggregations of species similar to those mentioned above have been found in other countries; but the instances cited are sufficient to show how widespread are the influences of mimicry and how profoundly it has modified the insect fauna of various parts of the world.
Among the remaining divisions of Invertebrata special mention may be made of the air-breathing Arthropoda - on the whole the most important and interesting group. About one-third of the animals belonging thereto that occur in the higher regions are exclusively alpine (or alpine and northern); these characteristically alpine forms being furnished chiefly by the spiders, beetles and butterflies.
There are many large and poisonous spiders and flies; fleas and mosquitoes abound.
Mayflies and dragon-flies danced in the sunlight; lizards darted across the paths; and legions of spiders pervaded the grass, many very beautiful - frosted - silver backs, or curious, like the saltigrades, who took a few steps and then gave a leap. There were crickets in infinite numbers; and flies innumerable, from slim daddy-long-legs to ponderous, black, hairy fellows known to science as Dejeaniae; hymenopterous insects in profusion, including our old friend the bishop of Ambato (possibly Dielis), in company with another formidable stinger, with chrome antennae, called by the natives ` the Devil '; and occasional Phasmas (caballo de palo) crawling painfully about, like animated twigs."
Scorpions and large spiders are a universal pest.
The waters of this cavern appear to be entirely destitute of life; and the existing fauna comprises only a few bats, rats, mice, spiders, flies and small centipedes.
He also took pleasure in smoking a pipe of tobacco; or, when he had a mind to divert himself somewhat longer, he looked for some spiders and made them fight together, or he threw some flies into the cobweb, and was so well pleased with the result of that battle that he would sometimes break into laughter" (Colerus).
Mosquitoes, termites, bees, ants, centipedes, millipedes, locusts, grasshoppers, butterflies, dragonflies, sandflies and spiders' are found in immense numbers.
A dozen kinds of insects, with a few varieties of spiders, flies and worms, complete the meagre list.
The appendages of the third pair, representing the first pair of walking legs in spiders and scorpions, are, on the contrary, long, attenuated and manyjointed at the end.
The Pedipalpi feed upon insects, and like spiders, are oviparous.
Like all spiders, the tarantula possesses poison glands in its jaws, but there is not a particle of trustworthy evidence that the secretion of these glands is more virulent than that of other spiders of the same size, and the medieval belief that the bite of the spider gave rise to tarantism has long been abandoned.
In recent times the term tarantula has been applied indiscriminately to many different kinds of large spiders in no way related to Lycosa tarantula; and to at least one Arachnid belonging to a distinct order.
In most parts of America, for example, where English is spoken, species of Aviculariidae, or "Bird-eating" spiders of various genera, are invariably called tarantulas.
These spiders are very much larger and more venomous than the largest of the Lycosidae, and in the Southern states of North America the species of wasps that destroy them have been called tarantula hawks.
In Queensland one of the largest local spiders, known as Holconia immanis, a member of the family Clubionidae, bears the name tarantula; and in Egypt it was a common practice of the British soldiers to put together scorpions and tarantulas, the latter in this instance being specimens of the large and formidable desert-haunting Arachnid, Galeodes lucasii, a member of the order Solifugae.
Mosquitoes, butterflies, spiders, beetles and ants are infinitely numerous, and some of the species are indescribably troublesome.
Large toads and frogs are common, as are scorpions, tarantula spiders, butterflies, hornets and stinging ants.
The appendages of the second prosthomere are the well-known chelicerae of the Arach nids, rarely, if ever, antenniform, but modified as " retroverts" or clasp-knife fangs in spiders.
The insect life comprises many brilliantly-coloured beetles, butterflies (about eight hundred species of which are known), moths, locusts, spiders and flies, and also noxious spiders, with scorpions and centipedes.
One or two land shells, a few spiders, several Coleoptera, a small lepidopter and a few other insects are recorded, but no Orthoptera or Hymenoptera.
If spiders may be great gods, why not the more attractive humming-birds ?
Other spiders weave these beautiful, symmetrical, ethereal webs whose designs have been the inspiration for art and mythology for as long as there were spiders, he explained.
In my dream … the aliens … took me … to a planet ruled by spiders!
The spiders and I have a truce, but if their webs become too blatant I start wielding my feather duster with a vengeance!
Can I stop bots and spiders from searching my website?
Google is using a new bot for their AdWords advertising system that automatically spiders and analyzes the content of advertising landing pages.
They feed on insects, spiders and other small invertebrates including other centipedes.
Among some pests to watch for are aphids, red spiders, leaf tiers, and rose chafers.
Do look for the big spiders in the low bushes, pale upper parts and very colorful under parts!
Perhaps when they have seen huge spiders on T.V. being handled without mishap, the perceived danger from our tiny native specimens seems less.
I rode a trout today, and drank the dew from spiders ' webs.
Various identifications have been published for the spiders used in spider divination.
Insects, spiders and crustaceans have them, while mammals, birds and fish have endoskeletons.
Some beautiful and very large grasshoppers were about, also a few big spiders but none that might bother you.
Other shrubs include wild honeysuckle, brambles and holly The animals that live here include spiders, caterpillars and butterflies.
But other creatures are equally fascinating, including lemurs, monkeys, reptiles, birds, insects and spiders.
On average, an adult spider molts once a year whilst younger spiders may molts once a year whilst younger spiders may molt more regularly due to their bodies growing faster.
The young spiders then molt to the second stage and begin feeding.
Yes, I get rather nervous around large spiders.
Dan took some great pix of the spiders webs in our garden this morning which were all frozen!
There is some evidence that they are quite heavily predated by spiders and other generalist predators.
For years, brown recluse spiders have been blamed for bites on humans and pets, but brown recluse spiders don't live here.
In other words, more people are scared of spiders than are scared of spiders than are scared of death itself.
However there was no sight of the much dreaded desert scorpion, spiders or snakes.
This includes sea spiders over 30 cm across and isopods, the relatives of woodlice, over 13 cm long.
Bright red starfish, giant predatory worms, huge sea spiders and many other bizarre creatures are extremely sensitive to global change.
Big dry passages, lots of bats and spiders, we even saw a shrew in the cave.
Researchers have now found that in turbulent air the spiders ' silk molds to the eddies of the airflow to carry them further.
Some spiders may consume it, for the protein in spider silk is not to be wasted.
The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere.
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Spiders - buying a tarantula There are several species of tarantula available in the UK pet trade.
The whole business takes 10-15 minutes in small spiders and several hours for a large tarantula.
He chases ground spiders in the Amazon with a collector who keeps 2,000 pet tarantulas.
Looking up he saw a long tendril like a spiders web.
Spiders use webs to trap their victims, then using their potent venom, they slowly digest their prey.
Few, if any, of the spiders found in temperate regions are particularly venomous or likely to bite.
Then, an attack of feral spiders separates her and Shadow from the human vermin, and nearly kills her protector.
Live displays in the gallery The Museum's upper gallery is home to four large vivariums containing live insects, spiders and scorpions.
The scorpion is rare, but large and venomous spiders are common.
His writings also were ransacked for matter of accusation against him, "a committee of Scotch spiders being appointed to see if they can gather or make poison out of them."
It is probably owing to the possession of such glands and the varied purposes for which the silk is used that spiders as a group far surpass the other orders of Arachnida, with the possible exception of the Acari (mites and ticks), in diversity of form and of size, in numbers of genera and species, in extent of geographical distribution, and in adaptation to varied habitats.
The phenomena, known as "protective resemblance," or similarity to inanimate objects or vegetation, and the kindred phenomenon of "mimicry," or beneficial likeness to certain protected species of animals, are common in the group. In these particulars, considered in their entirety, spiders show a marked contrast to other Arachnida, such as the scorpions, pedipalps, book-scorpions and so-called harvest spiders, which by comparison are remarkably uniform, within the limits of the orders, in structure, habits and other respects.
Amongst the threads, which entangle the wings and legs of intercepted prey, the spiders are perfectly at home and can pounce on the struggling victim at once if it be small and harmless or keep at a respectful distance, checking all efforts at escape, if it be poisonous or strong.
Examples of Selenops (Clubionidae) lie flat and absolutely still on the bark of trees, to which their coloration assimilates, and spring like a flash of light upon any insect that touches their legs; the Lycosidae dart swiftly upon their prey; and the Salticidae, which compared with other spiders have keen powers of vision, stealthily stalk it to within leaping distance, then, gathering their legs together, cover the intervening space with a spring and with unerring aim seize it and bury their fangs in its body.
The habits of certain other spiders suggest the origin of the perfect adaptation to a q uatic conditions exhibited by Desis and Argyroneta.
Though the aquatic members of a class of animals are in some instances derived from terrestrial forms, the usual transition is from an aquatic ancestry to more recent land-living forms. There is no doubt, from a consideration of the facts of structure, that the aquatic water-breathing Arachnids, represented in the past by the Eurypterines and to-day by the sole survivor Limulus, have preceded the terrestrial air-breathing forms of that group. Hence we see at once that the better-known Arachnida form a series, leading from Limulus-like aquatic creatures through scorpions, spiders and harvest-men, to the degenerate Acari or mites.
The spiders are specialized and reduced in apparent complexity, as compared with the scorpions, but they cannot be regarded as degenerate since the concentration of structure which occurs in them results in greater efficiency and power than are exhibited by the scorpion.
Insects of all sorts abound; scorpions, centipedes,spiders, and an ugly but harmless millipede known in Yemen as hablub are very common in summer.
The Mantispidae are remarkable among the Neuroptera for their elongate prothorax, raptorial fore-legs and hypermetamorphic life-history, the young campodeiform larva becoming transformed into a fat cruciform grub parasitic on young spiders or wasp-larvae (see Mantis-Fly).
It is probable that one explanation - namely, that of protection - covers all cases of ant-mimicry; and this explanation lies in all probability in the immunity from the attacks of most insectivorous enemies that ants enjoy, and especially from predaceous wasps of the family Pompilidae which annually destroy thousands upon thousands of spiders to feed their larvae; and since more than one observer has testified to the fear and abhorrence these wasps have of ants, it is needless to look farther for the benefit ant-mimicry is to spiders.
For years, brown recluse spiders have been blamed for bites on humans and pets, but brown recluse spiders do n't live here.
In other words, more people are scared of spiders than are scared of death itself.
The smirk on the faces of the spiders in my home is getting a little insufferable !
Funnel web spiders have a flat web with a tunnel at one side where the spider lurks.
Poisonous spiders may be lurking in the most innocent of places, so be careful where you put your hands and feet.
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Spiders - Buying a Tarantula There are several species of tarantula available in the UK pet trade.
I am not afraid of rats but I 'm terrified of spiders.
Like funnel web spiders, they live in burrows, often with a trapdoor entrance, from which they ambush prey.
For some reason, spiders seem to take a special liking to two-cycle engines.
Live displays in the gallery The Museum 's upper gallery is home to four large vivariums containing live insects, spiders and scorpions.
Two female wasp spiders Argiope bruennichi were found on their webs in Latchford Meadow in late August.
Spiders do n't view web pages like humans do, they must read the HTML in the page to see what it 's about.
The flowers gone, the crisp and wintry sun Lit instead the webs that spiders weave.
I don't even like to ponder the idea of spiders or snakes.
Ear mites are minute parasites that look like tiny spiders.
Brown recluse spiders and black widow spiders are the most notorious poisonous spiders.
There are a number of biting and stinging insects, such as mosquitoes, bees and spiders.
Ladybug Pacman is a homemade game where you control a Ladybug to eat dots and not to get eaten by spiders.
You can adopt various pets such as cows, cats, dogs and even spiders.
For example, if you're getting married on Halloween, you might want a Gothic wedding cake with orange and black frosting, fake spiders, and small fondant witches.
Add a few spiders and cobwebs to complete the cake.
For cupcakes, licorice spiders work well, as do marshmallow ghosts.
From a fear of flying, to cringing at the sight of spiders, even the rich and famous have their fair share of phobias.
However, his future plans won't include going anywhere near spiders, sharks, or snakes.
Ticks look slightly like spiders, but tend to be much stubbier in structure and come in several varieties.
Cobweb Houseleek (Sempervivum Arachnoideum) - One of the most singular of alpine plants, with tiny rosettes of fleshy leaves covered at the top with a thick white down, which intertwines itself all over the leaves like a spiders web.
Attract and protect aphid predators such as ladybugs, lacewings, assassin bugs, praying mantis, adult wasps, spiders and chickadees.
Researchers in Australia reported that both honeybees and crab spiders are frequently found on Japanese jasmine.
The black and yellow garden spider, also known as orb weaver spider, writing spider, yellow garden spider, or scientifically as Argiope aurantia, is an impressive species of garden spiders found throughout most of North America.
Few North American spiders are as showy as this species.
Young spiders reach maturity in late summer, at which time the male may leave his own web to take up residence with a female, whose web is significantly roomier.
Baby Argiope spiders make tiny webs in low-lying vegetation and are unlikely to attract your notice until they are mature.
While they may make some people uncomfortable, most common garden spiders are beneficial garden residents.
If you are in the habit of eradicating spiders from your home, resist the urge to do so in the garden.
Far from being garden pests, these spiders protect both you and your crops from a number of biting, chewing, and altogether unpleasant insects in the garden.
You have probably seen the webs of these spiders in the early morning, a multitude of delicate funnels in the grass, speckled with dew.
These small, harmless spiders are often mistaken for the hobo spider, which is a member of the same taxonomic family and weaves a similar web.
For this reason, and because the innocent look-alikes so overwhelmingly outnumber hobo spiders, it is safe to assume that most hobo spider sitings are, in fact, harmless grass spiders.
This is a family of spiders that includes the yellow garden spider and the more nocturnal Araneus, or cat-faced spider.
Ore weaver spiders are remarkable for the beautiful, complex webs they spin daily, each reaching up to two feet (60 cm) in diameter.
Orb weaver spiders prey on a number of garden pest species, such as aphids and grasshoppers, making them a natural asset to any garden.
With furry little faces and two enlarged eyes, jumping spiders are almost cute.
Sun-loving and keen of sight, they differ from other spiders in more ways than appearance.
Rather than spinning webs, these catlike spiders stalk and pounce on their prey, their leaps reaching distances of up to 16 times their own length.
Crab spiders, rather than spinning a web or hunting on foot, employ camouflage to catch their prey.
These delicate, usually light-colored spiders lay in wait within a flower blossom, often looking alarmingly like a pollen-bearing stamen.
Nearly all spiders are venomous, as they must use their venom to paralyze their prey.
While most spiders are harmless to vertebrates, there are a few that you would be wise to treat with caution.
Spiders, according to Colorado State University, are considered the most important terrestrial predators.
Rather than seeing them as pests, view your common garden spiders as long-term exterminators who happily provide their services free of charge.
Scooping up garden soil and using it indoors often leads to unwanted guests such as spiders or other insects that hatch in the warmth of household temperatures.
The spiders looked realistic in shape but were made entirely of jewels and gold.
Late Art Deco (1930s) and Retro (1940s) spiders were much more elaborate and artistic than Victorian ones.
Gothic jewelry showed spider figure silhouettes usually in all metal or metal spiders with a black or dark red gemstone.
You can find jewelry made with real spiders encased in resin, pendants with realistic looking metal spiders, creepy crawly Gothic spider rings, and vintage-inspired styles that resemble Victorian and Art Deco pieces.
It's available in black and is emblazoned with the company's logo, as well as some edgy artwork (a skull, knuckle duster and spiders are just a few examples).
Attach several small fake spiders to thin string.
When your victim opens the door, the spiders will fall down and appear to be jumping at him or her.
They may remember vague images of frightening animals such as spiders or snakes or people who were trying to hurt them.
All of the styles are given names that relate to spiders.
In Wild Water Wilderness, the Mystery Lodge provides an interesting Native American storytelling presentation, and the Ranger Station offers visitors a peek at spiders and other creepy-crawlies.
Play as Sam and protect Frodo at all costs by battling your way through Goblins, Orcs and ferocious spiders.
The first is hidden by a bunch of spiders that are surrounding a tree trunk.
You will need to use bait (like a dragonfly) to distract the spiders.
Arthropoda include insects, arachnids (spiders), crustaceans, and other subgroups.
Spiders, ants, bees, and wasps are the four kinds of arthropod that most often bite people.
Brown recluse spiders also prefer sheltered places, including clothing, and may bite if disturbed.
Because bites from widow spiders and brown spiders require different treatment, capturing and identifying the spider helps to establish diagnosis.
Arachnid-A large class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks.
Spiders work particularly well, as would a caterpillar.
A haunted mansion on the center panel, and bats, spiders with cobwebs, or ghosts on the dome for a spooky piece of art.
Encompassing classic posters from Forbidden Planet, Kingdom of Spiders, Day of the Dead and more, you can really get a feeling of what makes these posters classics.
The story involves the development of a rash or an itch, subsequent swelling and, eventually, the eruption of an infection within which an infestation of spiders, larvae or some other insect is discovered.
Spiders read pages from top to bottom and left to right, just like people do.
The most common blockage is in the form of dead bugs or spiders.
Spiders and spider webs were popular themes in Victorian times, as they were thought to bring luck to the quilter.
Enchanted Learning has a bunch of free Halloween craft patterns that are well-suited to younger kids, including spiders, skeletons and more.
A few fake webs around in the corners of the house with some very large plastic spiders would be a start.
Let kids make their own lunch meat sandwiches, or make individually sized mini spiders using biscuits and serve hamburgers on them.
Adam was scared of spiders, but applied to be on the show to meet Stroud.
Bilbo used his sword against the giant spiders of the Misty Mountains, and so effective was it that he named it Sting.
Miles had a morbid fear of spiders that he was forced to face on numerous occasions.
He was once forced to make critical ship repairs in a Jefferies tube infested with Talarian hook spiders.
While Harry battles dragons, merpeople and giant spiders in the tournament, he must also discover who has put him in jeopardy and why.
Bees, hornets, spiders, fire ants, yellow jackets and wasp stings are the insect bites that are often considered the most agonizing, irritating, and venomous.
The game is a 2D side-scroller in which characters from the movie jump and crouch their way past obstacles, and combat enemies in the form of Flies, Wasps, and Spiders.
A realistic viewpoint and understanding of the fluidity of search engine "spiders" is one of the first things that mark good web SEO specialists in NYC or anywhere else.
Search engine spiders crawl the Web and index site pages in their databases.
Search engine optimization, referred to as SEO, involves using several techniques to make a website more accessible to the search engine spiders.
When the search engine spiders crawl a website, it indexes the information available.
Kiera dreamt of a planet filled with spiders and dinosaurs and awoke in her bed a couple of hours later to the soft sound of her alarm clock going off.
By the time she returned to the large row house, she was looking forward to an addition to their home who may not fear killing spiders and other bugs.
God, she hated spiders.
The resin contains, in addition to the beautifully preserved plant-structures, numerous remains of insects, spiders, annelids, crustaceans and other small organisms which became enveloped while the exudation was fluid.
In turn other animals took shape, the last being two golden spiders from whose excrement the earth gradually rose above the surrounding ocean.
The workers of these ants range over the country in large armies, killing and carrying off all the insects and spiders that they find and sometimes attacking 'vertebrates.
Linnaeus in his Systema naturae (1735) grouped under the class Insecta all segmented animals with firm exoskeleton and jointed limbs - that is to say, the insects, centipedes, millipedes, crustaceans, spiders, scorpions and their allies.
His order of wingless insects (Aptera) included Crustacea, spiders, centipedes and other creatures that now form classes of the Arthropoda distinct from the Hexapoda; it also included Hexapoda of parasitic and evidently degraded structure, that are now regarded as allied more or less closely to various winged insects.
Spiders, in short, must be regarded as the most highly organized and the most successful members of the class Arachnida.
Trap-door nests are made by spiders belonging to two widely different groups, namely the Lycosidae or wolf-spiders, to which the true tarantula belongs, and the Mygalomorphae, containing the species which construct the best-known types of this style of burrow.
Dictyna may be cited as an example of a group of spiders, sometimes called the Cribellata, which have certain spinning glands and appliances not possessed by others.
The sexes of spiders are distinct.
The success of procryptic coloration depends, however, very largely upon stillness, and the instinct to keep stationary without moving a limb is a marked characteristic of all spiders unless engaged in hunting or fleeing from imminent danger.
White and red ants are very prevalent, as are mosquitos, centipedes, spiders and beetles.