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An Orb Weaver's Tale
Halloween is a good time to meet Hermione, an orb weaver spider, and find out how she creates her fantastic web.
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The Orb Weavers
Orb weavers produce the webs that most people recognize as being made by spiders. All purpose webs are used for resting, mating, and capturing, eating, and storing food.
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Garden Spiders Through the Year
A year in the life of Araneus diadematus, the common garden spider.
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One Spider's Method to Prevent Overeating
Some spider brains are hard wired to kill and eat prey when it is captured. Replacing sticky threads with non-sticky ones prevents overindulgence.
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Spiders Without Poison Glands
Having lost their poison glands, uloborid spiders wrap their living prey in a silk cocoon that smothers and sometimes crushes the prey to death.
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