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Jim Ryan Scott

SPIDERS

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"Hi! <reg>I'm</reg> Simon the Spider

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<note desc="text may be intended to be erased">40 Pages of spider fun!</note>

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Trapdoor Spiders

Trapdoor spiders live underground and catch beetles, <reg>caterpillars</reg> and flies by <reg>jumping</reg> out on them

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a <reg>Spider's</reg> body

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Eyes

Palp

Head and <reg>Thorax</reg>

Abdomen

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Did you know That it takes 16 hours to eat a rat!

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All <sic>Spider</sic>

All <sic>Spider</sic> are keen hunters. They <UNCLEAR> most of they <UNCLEAR> and <UNCLEAR>

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<reg>Spiders'</reg> Enemies.

<reg>Spiders</reg> have many enemies, The hunting wasps and stinging insects being the most deadly.

Water spiders, to escape them, weave a little diving-bell, or tent under water and take down bubbles of air so they can still breathe.

Others wear <reg>camouflage</reg> colours or <reg>disguise</reg> themselves as wasps or ants.

House spiders are very good at concealing themselves in corners so that their deadly enemy, The house-wife is not likely to find them.

If only she knew What the world would be like <note desc="word missing?">spiders:

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Hunting wasp

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water spider

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house spider

spider <reg>camouflaged</reg>

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Spider Survey

Do you like spiders

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This is a picture of a TARANTULA!

Jim Johnson. 5.11.95

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BIRD EATING SPIDER

Among the largest of living spiders are the so-called bird eating spider of the family Theraphosidae. The largest, from the Amazon basin, can attain a length of 3.5 in. with a leg span of 10 in. They are sometimes referred to as tarantulas, but the true tarantula is a wolf spider from Southern Europe.

(Figure 1). The fangs of the bird eating spider are sharply pointed and hollow. As soon as the prey has been caught and stabbed, a fluid is passed down the hollow fang. It is not clear whether this fluid is a poison or merely the first of a series of injections of digestive juices.

(Figure 2). The bird eating spider has few enemies, largely it is assumed, because of the irritant nature of its hairs. the main and probably only <reg>effective</reg> enemy of this spider is the hunting wasp whose sting paralyses it.

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4.11.95

Dear Sir/Madam,

My friends and I are doing project on Spiders at school.

As I am not able to visit Blackpool zoo at the moment, I wondered if you had any information/pictures we could use.

Yours sincerely,

<name key="Ryan Appleby">

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SPIDERS

Answer true or false to the following.

1. Spiders have six legs.

2. Spiders have two eyes.

3. Spiders are not insects.

4. All spiders spin webs.

5. Spiders only eat insects.

6. Spiders do not hibernate.

7. Some spiders eat birds.

8. The tarantula is the biggest spider in the world.

9. Scorpions are related to spiders.

10.Spiders live in every country of the world.

11.Many spiders have a poisonous bite.

12.Spiders have no enemies.

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1. False.

2. False.

3. True.

4. False

5. False

6. True.

7. True,

8. False

9. True

10. False

11. True.

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