Some Facts About Spiders

Little Miss Muffet of the nursery rhyme really existed. She was the daughter of Dr Mouffet who believed spiders had healing powers when eaten.

Spiders are one of the five things you are not allowed to send in the post in the UK.

Spider silk is twice as strong as steel in proportion to its weight

In addition, spider silk is very elastic. It is this combination of strength and stretch that makes the energy-to-break of spider silk so high. This makes it the toughest material ever discovered

Spiders have 48 knees

Spiders are not insects

Many spiders have eight eyes but they aren't very good ones so they don't see very well

Tarantulas are slow moving and their bite is like a bee sting.

Tarantulas go away if you blow on them. I learned this in the Amazon

Not all spiders make webs, but they all have silk.

The word spider is from an Old English verb spinnan, meaning "to spin."

Native Americans used to do a lot of weaving, but they would pull out the last threads on the cloth so as not to allow themselves to get too obsessed with perfection, unlike the spider in a myth who then died of exhaustion.

Arachnid is the Greek word for spider. It comes from an old Greek legend. The Greek goddess Athena turned Arachnae's body into a spider after she lost a weaving competition.

There are several endangered spiders, some of which have not even been discovered yet.

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