Monday 18 October 2010

Spiders in Hunting

Spider study continued. I recently found another large orb spider outside on a window under the deck. It is larger than mine and is more active too. I will tell you how spiders catch and eat their prey. The Wolf spider chases its lunch down while the Spitting Spider shoots out streams of goo at its prey to trap it then it goes to it and bites. Trapdoor spiders dig a burrow and wait for an insect to walk near and it darts out and grabs it. Spiders do not actually eat there prey, skeleton and all. BSSut inject them with things that digest there insides and they drink it out like a soda. spiders who have webs sometimes can not see very well so they rel on vibration. When and insect gets into a web such as an orb spiders it senses the movements in the web and rushes out to grab it and then it injects it with venom. This movie will show how orb spiders hunt. And watch closely and you might see little flashes at the ends of its body that is the silk its wrapping it up with

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