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Subject(s)

• Spiders—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Illustrator

• Okay, Tugce [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Evolution
• Arachnid ancestors
• Rock fossil spiders
• Life on land
• Fossils in amber
• Aerial webs
• Spiders are everywhere
• 2. Structures
• Spider brains
• A skeleton on the outside
• How spiders breathe
• Heart and circulation
• Fluid feeders
• Huge appetite
• 3. Sensing the World
• Keeping upright
• "Listening" in webs
• "Listening" on the ground
• "Listening" in the air
• Amazing eyes
• Sniffing perfumes
• 4. Successful Silk
• Building an orb web
• Liquid gold
• Hanging by a thread
• Protective cocoons
• Spiders can fly
• Ant eaters
• 5. Reproduction
• Sperm webs and eggs
• Courting with and without gifts
• Males fighting males
• Females figuring out males
• Mating with cannibals
• Maternal instincts
• 6. Overpowering Prey with Venom
• Spider syringes
• A painful experiment
• Stopped in their tracks
• People and venoms
• Unusual prey
• Flesh-dissolving spider venom
• 7. Hunting with a Web
• Bowl and doily web
• Wall of webs
• A smelly moth trap
• Trap doors
• Slingshot spiders
• Casting a net
• 8. Hunting without a Web
• Portia: a spider-eating-spider
• Fishing spiders
• Spitting spiders
• As still as a statue
• Wolf spiders
• A vampire-killing spider
• 9. Spider Enemies
• Saved by a spider sculpture
• Staying off the menu
• Saved by bird droppings
• Spinning out of control
• From burrow to deadly bath
• A tarantula's worst nightmare
• 10. Extraordinary Lives
• Escaping danger
• Spider influencers
• Tool-using spider
• Cutting-edge spider research
• Living with spiders
• Appreciating the elderly
• 11. Spider Folklore
• The story of Arachne
• Robert the Bruce
• Tarantism
• Weaving Charlotte's web
• Spider myths and medicine
• Tarantulas at the movies
• 12. Curious Facts
• An almost vegetarian spider
• Spider superpowers
• Spiders can count
• Enormous orb web
• No venom, no problem
• Social spiders
• Glossary
• Further Reading
• Index
• Acknowledgments

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ISBN

• 9780691251820 (hardcover)
• 0691251827 (hardcover)
• 9780691251813 (electronic book)
• 0691251819 (electronic book)

OCLC

1390189491

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