Among the arachnids that live in our homes and cause not very pleasant emotions, there are also harvest spiders. This is a very common family of spiders. Today there are about a thousand of its varieties. They are also called “long-legged”. Basically, they live in close proximity to humans.

Hay-making spiders are found both in city apartments and in private houses

Haymaker: what is he like?

• Common haymakers live in our houses and apartments. Essentially, it is an eight-legged, very graceful arachnid with beautifully curved long legs. It is often called a false spider, a “reaper”, or a “knife”. The body is segmented, ovoid, of two sections (abdomen and cephalothorax). These sections are not connected to each other by a jumper. There are no whiskers on the head, but there are eight eyes. Pairs of legs are located on the cephalothorax (they are not on the abdomen), with two legs used for capturing and crushing food. Four legs are walking. The length of the body varies from 0.1 to 17 cm. The harvester is perfectly adapted to life on land. The woven web does not have a sticky enzyme, which does not mean that its victim will be able to get out of it. As soon as it gets there, it begins to get bogged down in a cunning, chaotic weave, which the spider entangles even more on the victim.
• Good night Hunter. IN daytime for days the spider lurks on the wall, spending hours in a motionless position, as if sprawled on it. Feels stable standing wide on all his legs. Long, jointed limbs move the body with extraordinary speed and elegance. The largest is the second pair. The special structure makes it possible to grab the thinnest blade of grass and overcome any large or massive obstacles. In this case, the harvester does not cling to the body and does not injure it. Numerous legs are a salvation for the spider in case of danger. He leaves them easily. At the same time, he does not experience any trauma as such: the wound at the site where the leg was torn off heals immediately, preventing the loss of hemolymph. The nerve endings of the torn fragment create impulsive muscle twitches for another half hour. The lost part of the leg cannot be restored.
• There are no teeth, but the spider tears off pieces of its victims (snails, slugs, other arthropods) with the help of powerful chelicerae. Then it grinds the food in the mouth, gradually crushing it.
• It feeds mainly on small insects (even their remains), as well as vegetation. In this case, food can be either liquid or solid, semi-dissolved.
• Female arachnids lay future offspring hidden in eggs (about several hundred pieces).

By the way. How dangerous are harvest spiders to humans? Suffice it to say that they spend the poison they have exclusively on their victims, inflicting a paralyzing bite on them. He is not enough for anything more.

How does the haymaker get into the apartment?

Ways to enter a person’s home, office, store, warehouse, etc. very simple. People themselves, on their own clothes, carry spiders in their things. If there is something for him to profit from indoors, then the haymaker remains to weave his nets. Favorite places are where it is dry and warm. Spiders weave randomly around window sills in summer. In winter they rise higher, to the ceiling.

Harvesters crawl into the most microscopic cracks and holes. In case of danger, they flee. They are poisonous exclusively towards their victims, but if a person suffers from arachnophobia (fear of spiders), then they should not be in the room. And from an aesthetic point of view, the interior is spoiled by cobwebs hanging from the ceiling, mummified flies or cockroaches.

When are haymakers out of favor or how to get rid of them?

Still, the main reason for declaring war on arachnids is arachnophobia. Some people cannot tolerate them even visually; for others, a creature that gets on their body causes panic fear. The problem is so serious that psychologists are working on it. What can we talk about if there are a lot of harvestmen or other spiders? Here, in addition to fear, there is also a violation of sanitary requirements in the premises. This means that, in addition to spiders, you need to look for those living organisms that attract harvesters as food. Before removing spiders, you need to find out what other representatives of the fauna need to be destroyed.

Mosstails are poisonous only against their natural enemies.

The creature captured in the photo is familiar to everyone since childhood. We have all seen these long-legged spiders more than once, both at home and in nature. But what if I told you that what you see is not a spider at all?

So, I ask you to love and favor, this is - haymaker, popularly known simply as the “braidtail”, and this is not a spider. Haymakers ( lat.Opiliones) represent a separate order in the class of arachnids, but are not spiders themselves. Moreover, scientists claim that in terms of DNA structure, these animals are much closer to scorpions than to spiders. Harvesters live almost all over the planet, often looking into people's homes.

An interesting feature of harvestmen is their habit of huddling together. Despite all efforts, scientists cannot yet explain this phenomenon.

Possessing long legs, and a relatively small body, externally, harvesters are very reminiscent of spiders. But unlike the latter, the haymakers have only two eyes, They not poisonous and, most importantly, they don't weave webs.

“But how can that be? - many will ask. “After all, we definitely saw these creatures hanging on the web in the apartment!” Exactly! And this is where the fun begins.

Meet this - harvest spider, a representative of the arachnid class, he has eight eyes, and this is a real spider. They can be found in almost all houses of the world, on all continents of the planet (except Antarctica). Harvesting spiders ( lat.Pholcidae) They actually weave a web, which, although it does not have a sticky property, is very disorderly, due to which the prey quickly becomes entangled in it. Despite many prejudices, the venom of this spider does not pose a danger to humans, and its claws are completely too small to pierce our skin. Because of the love of these spiders for human dwellings, in the West they are often called “cellar spiders” ( EnglishCell spider).

Besides their appearance, these two animals have something in common: their name. The word “haymaker” comes from one property that both of these arthropods have. In case of danger, they most often run, but if you grab their leg, they will throw it away. After this, the leg bends for some time, which is reminiscent of the movements that are used to mow grass. This is where their name comes from. It is believed that this mechanism distracts predators and gives the harvesters a couple of extra seconds to escape. By the way, if you decide to grab one of these animals by the leg, remember that their legs do not grow back, and besides, harvestmen (non-spiders) have special glands that secrete sharp, bad smell. Therefore, pulling these creatures by the legs is probably not the best idea.

How to distinguish a haymaker from a haymaker spider?

The only obvious difference between these animals is the structure of their bodies. In the harvest spider, it is clearly divided into 3 parts: the abdomen, the cephalothorax and the stalk (a kind of neck that connects them). Despite the fact that the harvester also has both a cephalothorax and an abdomen, they are connected by a wide base, due to which it seems that the harvester’s body consists of one section.

The harvester (Opiliones sp.), or reaper, is also known by other names such as Daddy Longlegs or Grandfather Longlegs. They look a bit like spiders, having eight long thin legs and cephalothorax, and therefore are with them in the class of arachnids (Arachnida).

This is where the similarity with spiders ends for harvestmen, since most of them have only two eyes (some cave species have none at all), are not poisonous, do not produce a thread to weave a web, and it is quite obvious that the body is not divided into two segments, they don't need large size clothing wholesale, and they don't shed their esoskeleton as they grow. For these reasons and other functions, these arthropods were separated from spiders and placed in another order of arachnids (Araneae) to the harvestmen in Opiliones.

The haymakers have come a long way life path- more than 400 million years, and have not changed at all during this time, which indicates that they are well adapted to life in the harsh conditions of the mini-world of invertebrates. This success may also be associated with their omnivorous nature. In addition to small insects, spiders, and mites, they eat everything: plants, mushrooms, living and dead animals, etc. Unlike spiders, which must still reach the insides of invertebrates and pre-cook them to make them digestible, harvestmen can tear off and eat small portions of solid food, hence having another advantage for survival.

Most harvestmen have a pair of particularly long legs, which they use as antennae for touching. the world, find food, avoid danger, since the pair of eyes on the top of the head does not provide clear vision. The legs, if the harvester is grabbed by a predator, easily fall off and continue long time contract, diverting attention from the animal itself. These continuous contractions are very reminiscent of mowing, hence its popular name.

In fact, every person has a haymaker in their house - a spider, which can be called the most common representative of its species on the planet. The length of its body usually does not exceed one centimeter. There are individuals that in adulthood are no longer than two millimeters. However, people are afraid of them because they have enough big size paws - up to five cm, which is several times the size of the body. Such individuals live in forests. They are not distinguished by their long paws. Their bodies also come in completely different shapes. It can be round, oval or elongated.

This species received its name from the order Haymaker. The spider from this order is not one at all. That is why the order is also often called false spiders. Their only similarity is that both species belong to the arachnid family.

The haymaker is a spider that, like the rest of the family, has eight eyes. Two of them are called medial, and they are located in the front of the body. The remaining six change their position depending on the region in which their owners live. They can be comfortably located on the sides, or located on the ledges. In a word, the position of the eyes directly depends on the ease of their use in a particular area. Therefore, if one insect is transported from the forest to a house, it will most likely die.

As mentioned above, the haymaker is a spider that is ubiquitous. It can be found in Asia, Africa, and Alaska. Moreover, he is able to live in a wide variety of conditions - in clearings, in houses, in forests, on glaciers. The main thing is that midges and other small insects live in this place, otherwise the arachnid will die of hunger. In fact, the harvest spider, a photo of which can be found on any specialized resource dedicated to this family, does not need a separate introduction, since everyone knows it. It should be noted that its second name is centipede. He is popularly known by this name.

Among other things, the haymaker is a spider that cannot be called lazy. If he discovers that certain prey is not caught in his web, but is in close proximity to it, then he will begin to rock his web with smooth and silent vibrations. The threads of the trap do not have a sticky property, like other members of the family, but this does not mean that the spider’s food will be able to escape. To prevent this from happening, he weaves a net randomly, and as soon as the victim gets into it, he begins to wrap it even more. It should be added that the harvester can eat the prey immediately or leave it in a “canned” form for the future.

Exist different opinions, which relate to the danger of these spiders to humans. Some argue that the insect cannot cause any harm to people. The others believe that, however, he cannot use his bite on a person, since the amount of poisonous liquid in his body is limited. And he will simply remain hungry if he bites your finger or leg. There is another opinion, which says that the spider is not just poisonous, it is much more dangerous than tarantulas, or But not a single person has ever died from its bite because it does not have the ability to bite through the skin. In any case, there is no point in testing these theories for veracity, because no one knows exactly how the insect will behave in the next second.

The centipede spider, which lives in our area, reaches a body size of 2-10 mm. At the very big representative the abdomen is 22 mm. The length of the legs is comparable to the dimensions of the body or several times longer. The most common spider, the pigtail spider, has legs that are 20 times longer than the body - up to 16 cm.

Unlike other types of spiders, the abdomen and thorax are connected by a wide bridge, practically merging together. Whereas many spiders have a thin “waist”. The body is in most cases oval in shape. When the soil is very hot, long surfaces lift the body high to avoid overheating.

The spider has 6-8 eyes on its head, but the animal sees very poorly. The organs of touch and smell are located on the legs. This is the main organ connecting the harvester with outside world. The long-legged spider senses the slightest air vibrations, vibrations, and odors. You can carefully examine the structural features of the arthropod in the photo of the harvest spider located below.

A spider with long legs is a predator. It feeds on small arthropods and insects. Some species of harvestman eat snails, slugs, and also plant foods. Unlike its relatives - spiders, the pigtail eats not only liquid food, but also solid food, eating the victim entirely. The jaws and front legs help grind.

The arachnoid glands are poorly developed or absent altogether. In a chaotic web, the victim becomes entangled in a few seconds. The harvester injects poison, paralyzing the prey, then calmly eats it.

These are medium-sized spiders: from 6 to 21 mm in leg span, with an oval abdomen and a pear-shaped or ovoid unflattened carapace (dorsal part of the shell). Females are larger than males, but the carapace of many males is larger than that of females.

The funnel web spider's body color ranges from light brown or beige-brown to black. The body is covered with feathery hairs. Most agelenid species have a pattern on the abdomen and carapace. The front pair of legs is always longer than the others. The legs themselves are covered with powerful spines and sensilla. The paws of the legs are equipped with three claws, which indicates the ability of funnelworms to weave webs. The claws are covered with spines, the number and location of which serves as a taxonomic feature.

Representatives of the family have 6 simple and 2 complicated eyes. They are approximately equal in size and are usually located in pairs at almost the same distance from each other. Tunnel spiders have poor vision, so they navigate more using their sense of touch (motion sensors on their front legs). The chelicerae are powerful and directed downwards.

On the underside of the abdomen there are 2 pairs of arachnoid warts, the front ones are widely spaced, and the rear ones are elongated and often protrude backwards, resembling tails. One straight spiracle opens in front of the arachnoid warts. Funnel web spiders breathe with the help of two lungs and a pair of tracheas.

Grass spiders weave a horizontal dense web that converges downward in the form of a funnel. The network is supported by vertical support threads. The web of these predators is not sticky, but loose: small insects caught in it get stuck in it and cannot get out. The horizontal upper network turns into a hidden lower one, which in turn transforms into the spider’s refuge - a tube enveloping the burrow.

Spiders catch and bite only moving animals. If the victim caught in the web freezes and does not move, the funnel web spider will provoke it by tugging at the web, wait patiently, but will not touch it. Some agelenids may lack a cloth, but all have a living tube (burrow). The webs quickly become clogged with dust, and therefore the spider does not stay in one place for long.

Funnel web spiders feed on a variety of arthropods, sometimes even dangerous to them. In addition to softly chitinized flies, mosquitoes, leafhoppers and small spiders, they catch honey bees, orthoptera, beetles and ants. When a prey gets caught in a web, the owner instantly runs out, moving along the web, and inserts chelicerae into the body of the prey.

At the ends of the chelicerae on the claw, glands open, which inject poison and enzymes into the body: they turn the insides of the victim into liquid porridge. Grass spiders do not put the victim in their mouth for better digestion, they simply suck out the already dissolved entrails, waiting for the enzymes to finish their work.

The habitat of funnel-web spiders covers all continents: Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Northern and South America. Russia is home to 9 genera with 26 species. Agelenids are not found only where there is constant snow cover. Arachnids live in dry grass fields, in bushes, under the bark of trees, under stones, on rocks, in caves, in houses and residential buildings of people.

Funnel web spiders weave webs that sometimes bother us even in the house. Appearance and the extraordinary agility of spiders make us shudder at the mere mention of them. But all these insignificant shortcomings are outweighed by their undoubted merit. All spiders are predators. They destroy a huge number of insects, including annoying midges, flies and mosquitoes.

The house spider's venom is too weak to harm people. A female tegenaria sits in a dark corner of our home, catching ants and flies in her nets and not doing anything bad.

Another funnel-web spider, the meadow spider, is believed to be dangerous to humans. American arachnologists made a statement that poisonous bite this arachnid can lead to skin necrosis. In Europe, not a single such case has been recorded. Probably, the American case is an example of infection in a wound after a spider bite, since tegenaria does not have in its secretion such an amount of poison that would be capable of causing serious necrosis.

The body structure of a harvest spider can be different, depending on its species: in some it is spherical, in others it is very elongated, in others it has a clear division into the cephalothorax and abdomen. Body sizes can range from 2 to 10 mm. The length of the legs can also vary. For example, in species living in conditions wildlife under the forest floor, the legs are short and their size is comparable to the size of the body.

If we consider the haymaking spiders that are adjacent to humans, then they have very long legs.

As for similar characteristics, all harvesting spiders have four pairs of legs, with false segmentation on the legs. They also have four pairs of eyes, one of which bears two large medial eyes, the other three pairs are lateral.

These spiders got their name due to their external resemblance to harvestmen, which is why they are often confused. However, it should be remembered that harvestmen are not spiders, they are representatives of a separate order and are unable to weave webs.

Scientific name for spiders. Let's see how many legs a spider has and how it uses them

Despite the fact that today we are surrounded by millions of species of all kinds of insects, both large and completely invisible to the eye, many people have absolutely no idea what these insects actually look like, that is, in an enlarged form.

For example, children are not told how many legs a spider has. kindergarten, not at school, and in the future the person simply does not think about it. Therefore, the structure of the body of insects remains a mystery to many, and when one is faced with some nuances of this kind, stupor often sets in.

Well, let's now try to figure out what a spider looks like and what are the features of its many legs.

The answer to the question of how many legs a spider can have is only one: it has eight. This amount does not depend on the size of the insect, its species or location.

It is worth noting that often, looking at the image of a spider, many count as many as ten legs, but these calculations are erroneous.

In fact, the spider uses these two limbs to scoop up food, to use the receptors located on them to search for the safest path for movement, and also to control balance. But such insects never use pedipalps as auxiliary limbs for movement.

If the information about how many legs a spider has is more or less familiar to many, then the actions that this insect produces with their help are not known to everyone. First, let's take a look at what exactly all four pairs of legs are, and then, based on this, we'll look at what capabilities this gives the insect.

Spiders are arthropod creatures, therefore, all their legs are some kind of tentacles. They contain all kinds of receptors for smell, touch and many others. The spider's legs simultaneously perform the function of moving, recognizing danger, searching for food and weaving webs.

The parent arthropods use their tentacles to hold the cocoon and, if necessary, transfer it to another place. That is why spiders are the owners of such large quantity legs, which simultaneously serve them as hands, nose, vision and even the so-called “sixth sense”.

Not long ago, an experiment was conducted in France that proved that arthropods that have lost one or two of their limbs do not notice this loss.

To do this, full-fledged insects with all their legs were planted in one container. In another they found a group of them who, for some reason, had lost one or two legs.

The fact is that the back pair of legs is given to spiders as a reserve. They use them if they lose their front tentacles. By the way, this phenomenon occurs too often in nature, so you can easily find a spider in your dacha that will have only seven or even six limbs.

Most of us have encountered insects such as spiders with long legs, which are gray in color and move very, very quickly. For some they are terribly frightening, for others they seem like specks of dust that can easily be blown away. However, few people know that these arthropods are not spiders at all.

In science they are called “haymakers”, but popularly they are simply called “false spiders”. Recognizing a harvestman and distinguishing it from a spider is very simple. The former have a dismembered abdomen, which almost completely merges with the cephalothorax. Spiders have a complete abdomen, which is connected to the head by a thin membrane.

Conclusion

Knowing how many legs a spider has, how it uses them and what the features of their work are, you can look at these insects with less fear, realizing that they are not as terrible as they seem. And that in fact, only those arthropods that live in southern regions and have poison in their pedipalps.

Six or eight

We won’t bore you with a long wait and will immediately answer the question of how many legs a spider has. Eight! Yes, not six, like insects, but eight. Therefore, spiders are not insects. For these eight-legged creatures, a special class has been allocated - arachnids. In addition to spiders, this also includes eight-legged ticks. But that's another story, and we'll get back to spiders.

Brief introduction

The structure of the spider is such that the very first pair of its legs are the so-called tentacles. They are similar to walking feet, but are not used for that purpose. They have other functions:

• firstly, they help the spider to feel the road, carefully probing it;
• secondly, with the help of them he brings food to his mouth.

The strong jaws (chelicerae) located in front of its mouth help the spider in several cases:

• firstly, it is protection from enemies;
• secondly, with them he pierces his victim through and through;
• thirdly, chelicerae help it break holes in the ground.

The internal structure of the spider, unlike many insects, has a very complex structure. Its body contains arachnoid, salivary and poisonous (in some species of spiders) glands. The latter are responsible for the production of the poison necessary for the spider to hunt and self-defense.

The poison is injected through the chelicerae into the victim, immediately killing it. Then he injects a drop of saliva into it, which can turn the insect's insides into mush.

When the “dinner” is ready, the spider literally sucks out all the juices from the victim using a special sucking stomach that acts like a pump.

Why does he need eight legs?

But does this interfere with their normal life? We think not and here's why. French zoologists helped figure this out. They noticed that “incomplete” spiders are not nonsense for nature. Approximately ten percent of individuals live without one or two legs, and this does not prevent them from hunting, defending and reproducing.

From which we can conclude that the “backup” legs are the spider’s salvation in moments of danger.

Apparently, when nature “thought” how many legs a spider should have in its Everyday life, then I “came” to the conclusion that the energy required for the regeneration of lost body parts is more needed by spiders in other areas of their life - for hunting, reproduction, growth, and so on.

Hunting acumen

Interestingly, no matter how many legs a spider has - six, seven or eight - it never sticks to its own web.

Do you know why? Yes, because, excuse me, he is not a fool to walk along sticky and circular cobweb threads intended for his potential victims.

The question of the number of spiders living on our planet has interested scientists for more than a dozen years. Expeditions were created to explore hidden places and look for rare species.

After the work done, the approximate number of species of spiders living on Earth became known. According to the latest data, scientists count more than 40,000 species.

Each species has its own subspecies and therefore the nominal quantity is several times greater than the originally established value. If you try to count all the subspecies of the arachnid genus, the figure will exceed seven figures.

Tarantula spiders are of particular interest to spider lovers. They are more often than other varieties chosen for keeping at home. In turn, they are divided into dangerous, poisonous and completely safe for humans representatives of the class.

Spiders that live at home are very small in size and cannot harm a person even if they bite. There is a very small percentage of individuals that pose a threat to human health. For the most part, they are harmless creatures.

Different types spiders are endowed with individual qualities that help them survive in cruel world wildlife. The leaders in this order are, undoubtedly, representatives of arachnids, who have a special secretory fluid that can kill any insect or large animal.

Spiders belonging to the group of poisonous ones. Among the most dangerous of them are rightfully hermits who live far away in tropical forests and when bitten, can kill a person. These are very rare specimens, but they still exist in the fauna of forests.

Everyone treats spiders differently. But more often than not, these predatory and often aggressive creatures evoke in a person only fear or, perhaps, some kind of disgust; someone will look at them with curiosity and interest, and someone will want to move away from that place as quickly as possible. where the meeting with the spider took place.

And yet these strange and, at times, incredible scary creatures, which have existed since ancient times, are of interest not only to scientists, but also often ordinary people, looking at them with curiosity. But most often a question arises that worries all people, regardless of age (children and adults), about how many legs a spider has. And there is a lot of controversy surrounding this.

In order to get an accurate answer to the question of how many legs a spider has, you can use one of two methods:

• Labyrinth spider (Agelena labyrinthine) (lat.Agelenalabyrinthica) is the type species of the Agelenidae family, the body of which, together with the limbs, reaches 13–21 mm in length. The carapace covering the cephalothorax of the arachnid is gray-yellow, red-brown or yellow-brown with two darker concave longitudinal stripes. On the elongated dark brown abdomen of the labyrinth spider there are well-protruding tail-like posterior arachnoid warts. The gray hairs of the abdomen form a herringbone pattern. The legs have no pattern and are dark brown. They have powerful spines and sensilla.

• People have learned to judge the weather based on the behavior of the house spider. If he sits motionless in the center of his web, it means it will rain. If the spider is actively engaged in construction and stretching new webs, then dry and clear weather is ahead.
• People love to live in houses different kinds spiders not only from the grass family - in addition to the brownie, you can find the black attic spider and the long-legged spider (Folcus phalangoides). The latter is often confused with the harvestman, which is not a true spider at all.
• The Bible says that when baby Jesus was hidden by his parents in a cave, the spiders that lived there helped them escape from their pursuers. They entwined the holy family with a thick web, and the villains did not notice them. Since then, Christians believe that spiders are under the protection of divine powers and killing them is a great sin.
• At night, sometimes we notice a house spider on our own body. This is a male wanderer looking for food and a female. He passes by and accidentally bumps into us or catches pests on a person’s body. Spiders do not feed on human blood.

How many legs do a spider and a tick have: what are the differences between these animals, lifestyle and function in the ecosystem

Enough interesting question is, how many legs does a spider have? A very large number of people confuse these animals with other arthropods, in particular insects or mites. Therefore, this article will answer not only the question of how many legs a spider has, but will also make a comparison with ticks, since the latter also belong to arachnids.

It is especially important to consider that the ability to distinguish our hero from a tick is also important in practice. In particular, the latter are carriers of a large number of diseases or simply provoke allergic reactions in the body.

Both the arachnids and the other have eight legs, but they can be distinguished even externally. What to say about internal features related to behavior or other aspects of his life. Well, let's figure out from the very beginning what spiders are in order to figure out how to distinguish them from ticks.

Who are spiders?

Spiders are a fairly large order of arthropods that have at their disposal animals that live in various parts of our planet. How many of these animals are there? Only at latitudes former USSR there are 2888 species.

In some latitudes they are harmless, they have eight legs or four pairs of paws (as we understand), this is the same thing. Spiders are mostly engaged in creating webs. The implementation of this difficult task is required of them because they catch prey in such nets.

Then they run with their nimble legs to the insect caught in the net, and there they eat it. This is to briefly describe these habits. What do spiders look like? No wonder many people confuse them with insects.

The body of spiders consists of a cephalothorax with an abdomen located at its other end.

The web that spiders weave is intended not only for building trapping networks, but also for:

• building cocoons for eggs. In this case, the web is used as a construction tool for the other side of life - its continuation. Actually, the construction of trapping nets by spiders is also a way to prolong life, because an individual dies when there is no food. But here we mean maintaining the integrity of the population. This function of the web has a much more global purpose;
• escape in case of danger. Here we're talking about It's not so much about maintaining the integrity of the population as it is about preserving life. Thanks to the web, the spider can escape from something that poses a potential or obvious threat to it.

As you can see, the web is not only a means of attracting prey, but also a protective mechanism. An example is the use of a spider's web as a tool to build a cocoon. In this case, the web performs a protective function for the offspring of the arthropod. As you can see, a web is needed not just to get food.

Ticks also belong to the arachnids. Therefore, the tick is a kind of mini-spider. However, the average person needs to be able to distinguish between these animals, since most of the eight-legged net builders that we encounter are not very dangerous to humans. But ticks are much more dangerous. They are carriers of a number of diseases:

• tick-borne encephalitis. Inflammation of the brain, in which a person dies quite quickly;
• Lyme disease. Inflammatory processes that affect internal organs person;
• allergy. A tick bite can even result in anaphylactic shock, during which death can occur in a few minutes.

Naturally, not every tick is infected or can provoke allergic reactions. You should not panic when you see a tick on your body.

Nevertheless, you need to be able to distinguish an ordinary spider from a tick, which is sometimes quite difficult to do.

After you see tick bites on yourself, it is advisable to take a sample of the arachnid to the laboratory to identify the causative agents of these diseases, and consult a doctor yourself.

In ticks it is flat (if the animal has not yet eaten blood). That is, it is quite simple to distinguish these two representatives of the arachnid family. But there is one caveat. If the spider is small, then it is quite difficult to distinguish two segments in it. Only one may be visible.

This factor must be taken into account.

In general, we realized that both species of animals have four pairs of legs. At the same time, they differ in body and lifestyle. Indeed, unlike their relatives, ticks feed on the blood of people, and do not knit webs from cobwebs. It turns out that the differences are not so tricky, right?

A spider with long thin legs is ubiquitous. Found in forests, meadows, fields, near rivers, in outbuildings, abandoned buildings, residential buildings. Some species live in deserts and mountains.

During the day, the kosisena spider hides in shady places away from direct lines. sun rays. Often found on the walls of a building with its legs splayed to the side.

Unlike most other spiders, centipedes remain active all year round. This is due to the fact that they come from the tropics, and therefore are not familiar with seasonality.

Hunting method

The haymaker spider hunts in a special way. This is due to the fact that their fishing net does not have adhesive properties. However, these spiders weave it very chaotically and as a result the web turns out to have an uneven pattern, it is tangled and disorderly. Centipedes leave their unkempt webs everywhere: in damp corners of caves, among the branches of trees and bushes, in the grass, in empty animal burrows, in abandoned buildings and residential buildings.

Thus, settling in apartments, centipedes regulate their numbers.

Haymaking spiders hunt mainly at dusk. The centipede sits upside down in its web and freezes. At the same time, he usually attaches a signal thread to his paw. The victim falls into the net and becomes very entangled in it in a matter of seconds. This is facilitated by chaotic weaving. The spider, sensing the vibration, runs up to the prey and throws a few more threads onto it.

The hunter makes a hole in the resulting cocoon, gets to the body of the victim and bites it. Afterwards, he injects gastric juices into the wound, which turn the internal contents into mush. After some time, the centipede eats partially digested food or moves the prey to a secluded place and leaves it in reserve.

In the cold season, when the number of insects sharply decreases, it becomes quite difficult to catch anyone using nets. During this period, the haymaker spider is forced to look for food, moving around the house. And it is at such moments that his long legs help him. He finds his “relative’s” web and pretends to be entangled in it. But when the disturbed spider approaches and is about to attack, the centipede immediately takes control of the situation and turns from prey to hunter.

It is worth noting that the haymaker spider is not dangerous to humans. Its jaws are too weak to bite through the skin, and there is very little poison - it is only enough to kill a tiny insect.

Reproduction

Upon reaching a year, males become sexually mature. They independently stimulate the production of secretions for fertilization and only then go in search of a female. Having approached the web of his chosen one, the male tries to attract attention to himself. He steps with his feet on the fishing net and begins to vibrate his whole body.

In the future, the male’s life depends on his efficiency. When mating drags on for several hours and in order to fertilize the chosen one, the male makes several attempts, as a result he weakens, does not have time to retreat and is eaten. But if fertilization occurs calmly and quickly, the male, as a rule, remains alive.

Development

The female lays her eggs in a net woven from a cobweb and carries it in her jaws for some time. Usually there are no more than 20-30 eggs in such a net. After some time, small spiderlings emerge from them. Moreover, if among the hatched offspring there are too weak individuals that cannot even get out of the egg, then the mother immediately eats them.

Soon the young hay spiders undergo a molt. They shed their tight chitinous cover, after which their legs become short and their bodies are almost transparent. This is repeated several times during the growth process. Moreover, young spiders experience all molting while being close to their mother - she continues to carry the growing offspring in a silk net.

Reproduction

Mating season lasts from the beginning of July to the end of August. The method of fertilization is internal, more reminiscent of insects. The fertilized female lays eggs in the soil. Reproduces up to 600 pieces at a time. The young generation, the eggs, remain to overwinter. One population appears per year, rarely two. The spider lives no more than 2 years.

Cubs differ little in appearance from adults. A spider with a small body and large legs. The maturation period lasts several days. A young haymaker molts 7 times. Gradually increases in size and acquires a darker color. At the last stage of development, puberty occurs.

Agelenids breeding time occurs in the midst of summer. The funnel web spider finds the female's nest and taps her web in a specific manner. The female falls into a stupor (trance), the partner takes her to the desired place and mates with her. After this, the couple lives together for several weeks. Then the female will definitely try to eat the male.

By the end of summer, the female will spin a cocoon, place it in her tube or a new living chamber nearby and lay eggs in it. House spiders make several small cocoons with eggs hidden in them and hang them on the web.

Top 10 most dangerous, poisonous, deadly spiders in the world, on the planet: list with names

1. The arthropod's paws are easily torn off, and the damaged area quickly heals without causing harm. The leg continues for some time to make movements that resemble a scythe during haymaking. This is where the name comes from: goat's leg, haymaker, spider's leg, goat's leg. The paw attracts the enemy's attention while the spider runs away. Natural enemies There are other arachnids and birds.
2. The Latin name opiliones literally means "shepherd". The associations arose due to the long legs resembling stilts. In ancient times, shepherds often used stilts to make it easier to keep track of their flock.
3. An American writer named the spider opiliones due to its massive distribution in pastures.

A tick is also called a haymaker, which has nothing in common with an arachnid. According to genetic studies, the pigtail's DNA is more similar to scorpions than to spiders.

A spider with a round body and long legs is often found in residential areas. The question naturally arises: is it poisonous or not? The harvester injects a toxic substance into the body of the victim during a bite. The poison paralyzes the muscles, immobilizes the prey, allowing the pigtail to calmly eat.

The poison is not dangerous to humans. Experts say that the haymaker does not bite at all. In a life-threatening situation, he flees for his life, even sometimes sacrificing his limbs. Doesn't rush to attack. The presence of an arachnid in the house is unpleasant and annoying nervous system, may frighten a child or person suffering from arachnophobia. There is no other harm from the braid.

To get rid of the haymaker in the house, you need to clean, walk with a broom in the corners, behind the furniture, remove garbage, deposits of paper, rags, and things. And also get rid of flies, cockroaches, and ants, which act as food for moss in the house. There is no need to use poison to get rid of spiders.

The predator drags the caught insects inside the tube. Its web is not equipped with sticky threads: victims simply become entangled in the network. In addition, the owner always arrives on time and uses his poisonous glands. In this species of grass spiders, both males and females weave webs of the same shape.

Mating in Agelena labyrinthine occurs in mid-summer. The male comes to the female's web and gives her a signal. After mating, the female can eat the male if he does not have time to escape. Closer to autumn, the female transforms the trapping net into a cocoon and hides it in her shelter or weaves a separate tube for it. The young will spend the winter in it and will come out only in the spring.

• House spider(lat.Tegenariadomestica) is a cosmopolitan synanthropic species that lives in people's houses and basements. Those rare individuals that fate rejected from human habitation are forced to settle under the bark of trees, in hollows, in old stumps or under fallen leaves. The house spider spread throughout the world along with humans. The body length of the male excluding legs does not exceed 10 mm, the female is larger in size and can grow up to 15 mm. The color of the teardrop-shaped abdomen of the spider can be beige-brown or yellow with a leopard-like pattern of brown spots. Occasionally the abdomen pattern looks like a herringbone. The male has a darker color tone. The spider's legs are decorated with an ornament in the form of dark rings.

The female house spider weaves a web in the form of a funnel with an area of ​​3 dm², going to the place where the predator is hiding. These could be dark corners or secluded places. The male tegenaria often makes traps using only single signal threads without a dense funnel. It also happens that the male does not weave a web at all and hunts in the same way as other wandering spiders.

The male goes at night to search for a female and food. The house spider cannot store supplies of victims by wrapping them and putting them aside. It eats the caught prey immediately after its insides are dissolved under the action of injected enzymes. The house spider feeds on flies, fruit flies, bed bugs, woodlice larvae, moths, mealybugs and other prey of suitable size. It helps people get rid of harmful insects.

The venom of house tegenaria has been little studied. And although the house spider’s chelicerae are powerful, it rarely manages to bite through human skin. If the spider feels threatened or is caught, it will try to bite, but there have been no cases of infection and poisoning of a person with its venom in history.

In search of a female, the male often climbs into people's sinks and bathtubs and cannot get out. The male finds the female's web, carefully touches it with his feet and waits at the edge. If the female confuses him with the victim, he is always ready to run away. If she doesn’t come out, it means she understood the signal, then the male begins to slowly move millimeter by millimeter towards the living tube.

Soon after mating, the female lays eggs in several small cocoons she has twisted and hangs them on her funnel-shaped web.

• Giant house spider, large black house spider(lat. Eratigena atrica, until 2013 had Latin nameTegenaria duellica) famous for killing its relatives, with whom it has to compete for food. It bites reluctantly, and the bite of this funnel-web spider is safe for humans. When in danger, he prefers to flee.

Giant house spiders live in people's homes in North America. Central Asia, North Africa and Western Europe. Both male and female have the same dark brown color and three light spots on each side of the cephalothorax. There are also individuals in gray and even black shades. On the underside of their abdomen there is a characteristic yellowish pattern.

The black house spider is somewhat similar in color to the regular house spider, but its legs, tentacles and abdomen are covered with abundant hairs. Despite the name, this species of funnel-web spider is not the largest in the genus: females reach a length of 18.5 mm, males - 15 mm. The paws can be of different lengths: from 25 to 75 mm.

Initially, the habitat of the giant house spider was caves or dry forests. Often he hid under stones. But now he has moved into people's residential buildings. It lives for 2-3 years and builds funnel-shaped webs, sometimes reaching dimensions of one and a half meters. Males can be found wandering around the apartment from July to October, while females sit in the web and are found all year round.

At least 60 small spiders emerge from the cocoon. They stay together for about a month, but are not social creatures; they hunt separately. After 7-8 molts, they become adults and crawl into their corners. A large black house spider can bite through human skin, the wound may hurt, but the venom of this arachnid is not dangerous to people.

Giant house spider for a long time held the lead in speed of movement among his classmates. He runs at a speed of 0.53 m/sec. Today, in the Guinness Book of Records for this indicator, it is displaced by arachnids from the phalanx order (lat. Solifugae).

• Thin Allagelena (lat. Allagelena gracilens) outwardly resembles a labyrinth spider and lives in the same places, but is smaller in size and rare in occurrence. The genus name translates as “distinguishable from Agelena.” The length of the body, excluding the legs, reaches 9-11 mm in the female, and 5-10 mm in the male. The color of the spider is light gray with brown dots. Light brown, barely noticeable stripes are present on the cephalothorax. Thin, slightly transparent legs are gray or gray-beige in color.

Grass spiders of this species live in Europe, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean basin. They build their network among bushes in sunny warm places.

• Meadow spider, or American house spider(lat. Eratigenaagrestis, previously Tegenariaagrestis) also called hobo spider. The species was first described in 1802 in its native Western Europe. Now he lives in the forests and meadows of Central Europe, North America(USA and Canada) and the black earth strip of Russia.

This spider weaves webs in peat, logs, and near human houses, and leads an active lifestyle, moving very quickly. Females, especially during gestation and protection of young, having no escape route, can attack and bite; they can bite through human skin. Previously, it was said about the strong hemolytic effect of their poison, allegedly causing skin necrosis. This assumption was later refuted. A bite from this species can only cause severe local inflammation.

The American wandering spider does not grow more than 5 cm in length including legs, and by this feature it can be distinguished from the similar but larger Eratigena atrica, which prefers to live in human homes. The body of the meadow spider is beige with a dark brown pattern: on the abdomen in the form of a herringbone, on the cephalothorax in the form of 2 longitudinal lines. The diet of this species includes insects and other arthropods.

• Brown recluse spider (lat. Coelotes terrestris) is a small arthropod, the average body length of which, excluding legs, is 9-14 mm (in females) and 7-10 mm (in males). The color of the upper part of its body is light, red-brown with dark gray spots on the cephalothorax and abdomen. Spider is different dark color the abdominal part and the absence of a pattern on the red-brown limbs. In females the abdomen is large, expanding at the back; in males it is small.

This type of funnel-web spider lives in Europe, China and Turkey, in the central and southern part of the USA, and in Australia. Settles more often in the moss litter of forests or under roots coniferous trees. Less commonly, it inhabits old stumps and weaves a funnel-shaped web about 5 cm wide under tree bark or stones. The brown recluse spider's favorite prey is insects and their larvae: butterflies, beetles, mosquitoes, flies.

• Tegenaria parietina is a species of funnel web spider that is found in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, Jamaica and Sri Lanka. Lives near humans, weaving webs in the corners of barns, basements and houses.

The average body length of a female excluding legs is 20 mm, of a male – 17 mm. The legs of representatives of this species are 3 times longer than the body. The spider's cephalothorax is yellow, light brown or yellow-brown, and contains a pattern on top in the form of two wavy black or dark brown lines. The edges of the cephalothorax are outlined by a thin stripe of the same color as the lines in the middle.

Spider Science: What is it called?

Araneology is the science of spiders, which is part of the branch of zoology - arachnology. Arachnology studies arthropod invertebrate arachnids. The origin of the name is ancient Greek.

Also, arachnology is the art of weather prediction based on observing the actions of spiders.

Spiders - what are they: types

Researchers know about 42 thousand species of spiders. Spiders can be divided into three large suborders, which differ mainly in the structure of the jaws, or more precisely, in the position of the chelicerae relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.

Suborder Orthognatha

More often, representatives of this suborder are called migalomorphs. Characterized by the presence of dense hairs, large sizes and the primitive structure of the jaws - the claw is directed downwards and grows only on the upper jaw. Respiratory system represented by pulmonary sacs.

The majority of mygalomorphs live in warm climates. They make burrows underground.

Orthognatha includes:

• tarantula spiders
• funnel spiders
• ctenizidae
• digger spiders

Almost all other species of spiders known to naturalists belong to large group Labidognatha or Araneomorpha. They differ in that both jaws are equipped with claws. The respiratory system is represented by the trachea.

Types of spiders that catch prey without a net:

• crab spiders
• jumping spiders
• wolf spiders

Types of spiders using a trapping net:

• linifid spiders
• web spiders
• funnel spiders, or house spiders
• long-legged spiders
• orb weaving spiders

Among araneomorphic spiders, there are also those that are not capable of producing cribellum - a substance from which spiders produce durable spider silk, and those who produce it.

Suborder Mesothelae

Lyphistiomorphic spiders are distinguished by the fact that the chelicerae are spread out to the side rather than pointing downwards. This position is considered more evolutionarily advanced. But this suborder is considered the most primitive; traces of it were found in Carboniferous deposits. Spiders have archaic pulmonary sacs and four pairs of arachnoid warts, which have not yet been moved to the end of the abdomen.

These include:

• arthropod spiders
• primitive arthrolycosid spiders
• primitive arthromigalid spiders

Spider: insect, animal or not?

Who are spiders?

Spiders belong to a type of animal - the order arthropods in the class arachnids. Therefore, spiders are animals, not insects.

Differences between a spider and an insect:

• a spider has four pairs of legs, and insects have three pairs
• Spiders do not have antennae characteristic of insects.
• many eyes, up to twelve pairs
• the body of a spider always consists of a cephalothorax and abdomen
• Some types of spiders have intelligence: they distinguish strangers from their own, can protect the owner, sense the owner’s mood, and even dance to music. No insect can do this, unlike an animal.

Spider body structure

The body of spiders, covered with chitin as an exoskeleton, consists of two sections that are connected by a small tube:

• The cephalothorax is formed by the head fused with the chest
• abdomen

Cephalothorax

• The cephalothorax is divided by a groove into two sections: the cephalic and thoracic. In the anterior head section there are eyes and jaws - chelicerae. In most spiders, the chelicerae are directed downwards and end in a claw. The claws contain poisonous glands.
• The lower part of the jaws - pedipalps, are used as palps and grasping elements. Between the pedipalps there is a mouth used for sucking. In some mature males, the pedipalps are also the cymbium - the copulatory apparatus.
• Simple eyes are also located in the anterior cephalic region.
• Four pairs of jointed legs are also found on the cephalothorax in thoracic region. Each spider leg consists of 7 segments. The last segment of each leg has two or more smooth or serrated claws.

Abdomen

• The abdomen can have the following shape: round, oval with processes, angular, elongated worm-shaped. On the abdomen there are stigmata - respiratory openings.
• On the underside of the abdomen there are arachnoid warts containing arachnoid glands. The genital opening is located near the base of the abdomen. In females it is surrounded by a thickened chitinous plate, and in males the genital opening looks like a simple slit.

Spiders can grow up to 10 cm in size, and the span of their limbs can exceed 25 cm, it all depends on the species. The smallest representatives are only 0.4 mm in size.

The color and pattern depend on the structure of the scales and hairs covering the body, the presence of pigment and the type of spider.

How many legs does a spider have, the difference between legs and limbs

Remember - absolutely any spider has 8 legs (aka legs, legs). It would seem that you should catch a spider and see how many legs it has. But not everything is so simple, because if you ask an enlightened person how many legs and how many limbs a spider has, the answer will be 8 and 12, respectively! The latter include 4 pairs of legs, 1 pair of tentacles and 1 pair of chelicerae.

In fact, many people, when asking the question of how many limbs a spider has, mean only its legs. But the limbs include not only the legs, but also other parts of the body. This representative of the fauna has a feature that people often do not notice. It's all about the forelimbs, called tentacles. Yes, they look like paws, but they have a different function, or rather two:

• claws help to navigate better in space by touch. By feeling the road in front of it, the spider better understands how it should move and what surface it is on;
• catching small prey, a more convenient way to use it is to take it with your jaws and bring it to your mouth.

Leg tentacles are clearly visible in large species. These include: the tarantula theraphosa blond, the South Russian tarantula, nephila and others.

In large arachnids, you can also notice chelicerae - strong protruding jaws located in front of the mouth. This part of the body is also a limb.

Chelicerae are also needed to inject venom (for those who have it) into the victim, as if a scorpion were using its sting. The claws also have another name - pedipalps. Males use them to fertilize females.

In order not to get confused in terms and concepts, you should clarify something. Spider is a separate class of the animal world and belongs to the arachnids. In other words, it is not an insect! In terms of body structure, it is closer to such creatures as scorpions.

All insects have 3 pairs of legs (6 legs in total). Various centipedes and other animals are not insects, they have their own class, like spiders. In insects, the legs are on the thoracic section, in spiders on the cephalothorax. In addition to small external differences from insects, arachnids have a fundamentally different internal structure body.

Despite the fact that spiders are a separate species, the question remains open - why does a spider need 8 legs and not 6? There is no direct answer, but reasonable conclusions can be drawn. Let's start our discussion from afar, with an explanation of the nature of the web.

After the prey is caught, the spider completes its work by wrapping the victim in a cocoon. After this, the spider just needs to use its venom and saliva to cook the victim, and then suck out the resulting mess.

Absorption occurs using a special stomach that works on the principle of a pump.

So, in order to move comfortably along their own threads, arachnids need 4 pairs of legs. But what about those spiders who don’t know how to make webs? Arachnids have a special body structure and need “extra” legs for even better body balancing. Another function of the legs is smell. With the help of hairs, spiders recognize the prey for edibility.

In addition, spiders are offended by other predators, or “everyday” incidents happen to them, as a result of which the spiders lose their precious legs. Roughly speaking, they initially have “extra” legs, but with 4 legs the spiders will be completely uncomfortable.

• There are individuals that cannot weave a web (about 50 species). They are called Phryns. This is a separate species with its own characteristics. So, they have powerful front jaws for reprisal against the victim and rather long legs.
• Most people think that spiders have 8 eyes. In fact, their number ranges from 2 to 12.
• Arachnids do not have a skeleton, only the hard shell. This is partly why their enormous size is impossible, as shown in horror films. Otherwise they will die under their own weight.
• The web is one of the strongest materials on Earth (stronger than steel), its artificial synthesis is still not possible.
• Length of the largest the arachnid is 28 cm, and the smallest is half a millimeter.
• Spiders can live more than a person– more than 30 years.
• Gladiator spider, unlike its relatives, uses a web not in the form of a circle, but in the form of a square.
• The diameter of the orb-weaving spider's web is about seven meters.
• The tarantula spider is one of the “domestic” species of animals and at the same time a wonderful delicacy for the inhabitants of Cambodia.

As you can see, the spider is one of the most amazing creatures on the planet thanks to its natural properties. It’s good that they don’t have enough brains to seize power on Earth.

• All spiders have four pairs of legs, which are located on the cephalothorax and are usually covered with hairs.
• Each foot has crescent-shaped, comb-like claws. Between the claws, most often, there is a sticky pad - a claw-like appendage.
• Spiders that weave webs have auxiliary serrated claws that allow the spider to move freely along the web.

How many eyes does a spider have?

• Depends on the species. Some species have only two eyes, and some have up to twelve. Most species have 8 eyes, which are arranged in two rows.
• In any case, the two front eyes are the main ones. They differ in structure from other lateral eyes: they have muscles to move the retina and do not have a reflective shell. The auxiliary eyes are also distinguished by the presence of light-sensitive retinal cells. The more of them, the sharper the spider’s vision.
• Some spiders can see as well as humans and distinguish colors. For example, jumping spiders. Night hunters, for example, side-walking spiders, see perfectly not only at night, but also during the day. But wandering spiders see best.

How does a spider weave a web?

The thread of the web consists of many thin threads, which the spider glues together with a special liquid that quickly hardens in air. Thanks to this, the strength of the web is achieved so high that spiders even travel with its help, covering kilometers of distance.

The web can be dry, sticky, elastic - it all depends on the purpose of the thread.

Types of threads for webs:

• for cocoon
• catching sticky thread
• for moving
• to entangle prey
• thread for fastening

The design of the web depends on the hunting method. When weaving, spiders use a thread that reflects ultraviolet rays, which most insects see. Moreover, the spider weaves ultraviolet-reflecting threads in such a way that they look like flowers, which also reflect ultraviolet. Therefore, insects fly to an alluring and sweet flower and end up in a web.

Stages of weaving a web:

1. The spider releases a long thread first. Such a thread is picked up by the air flow, rushes to the nearest branch and clings to it (Fig. 1, 2).
2. Then another free-hanging thread parallel to the previous one is woven. The spider moves to the middle of this thread, which is stretched under its weight, and weaves another thread in a downward direction until it finds a third support (Fig. 3).
3. The spider attaches a thread to the support and forms a Y-shaped frame.
4. Next comes the general contour and several more radii (Fig. 4).
5. An auxiliary spiral is woven at these radii (Fig. 5). This entire frame is woven from non-sticky thread.
6. Next, the spider weaves a second spiral with a sticky thread, towards the middle of the web from its edge.

Construction may take 1-2 hours.

How do spiders reproduce?

• Males usually differ from females in size (the male is smaller), long legs, brighter coloring, and the presence of pedipalps, which appear in males only during the last molt.
• First, males weave a special sperm web. Although some types are limited to a few stretched threads. Then the spider applies a drop of sperm to the web and fills the pedipalps with sperm, with the help of which it introduces sperm into the female’s seminal receptacle. And he goes in search of the female.
• The spider finds the female by smell. Having found a suitable female, the male begins to cautiously approach. If the female is not in the mood for courtship, she will attack the spider and may even eat it.
• If the female looks favorably at the male, then the male begins to lure the female: he performs “wedding dances,” “clangs” his legs, and brings prey. Having appeased the female, the spider carefully approaches her, touches her with the tips of her legs, then touches her with her pedipalps and retreats. The male also “drums” on the substrate.
• If the female does not show aggression and “drums” herself, then the male carefully approaches and brings his pedipalps to the female’s genital opening. The act lasts for several seconds.
• Then the male runs away so that the female does not eat him. Although this happens quite rarely. In one season, a female can have several males.
• After 6-10 weeks, the female weaves a cocoon into which she lays up to 500 eggs. The female carefully guards the cocoon, holding it between the chelicerae. After another 5 weeks, the spiderlings appear.

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Most spiders live for a year. But some species, such as Grammostola pulchra from tarantula spiders, can live 35 years. Moreover, this applies only to females; even male tarantulas live for 2-3 years.