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Did you know that...
... a Tarantula's bite usually causes severe local pain that requires hospitalisation and pain killers? And yet people keep them as pets!
... when a tarantula is upset it will pull hair from its abdomen and throw it at its prey?
... the Brazilian wandering spider holds the record as the most venomous spider in the World?
... spiders can amputate (bite off) their own legs? New but shorter legs appear at the next moult!
... Trap Door spiders shut themselves in burrows to protect themselves from their enemies?
... Crab spiders (so called because they run sideways like crabs) are often the same colour as flower petals?
... a spider's thread is stronger than the same thickness of steel?
... the female Wolf spider's hairs on their abdomen have special knobs for the young to hold on to when they are getting a piggy back from their mothers?
... the bite of some large spiders can be painful but the smaller spiders can not pinch the skin hard enough to get in?
... some female spiders are so much bigger than the males that they sometimes eat their mates!
... in seven years, if you get bitten by a Wolf spider, you could have no arm left because the wound from its bite eats a centimetre of skin every month and there is NO medicine for the bite?
... spiders are usually carnivorous and feed only on living prey?
... trapdoor spiders dig a tunnel in the ground and seal it with a hinged lid. They wait patiently behind this trap door until they sense prey passing nearby. Then they rush out to capture the prey and drag it down into the tunnel.
Aren't spiders fascinating!