Fabulous Facts

Spiders

  • Did you know spiders can get from as big as a speck of dust and grow up to one foot long?

    Submitted by Eve K., age 9, Boulder, CO
    (October 1, 2011)
  • Wolf spiders carry their eggs and young on their abdomen.

     

    Submitted by Matt W., age 12,
    (August 12, 2010)
  • Spiders are NOT insects - they are ARACHNIDS.

    Submitted by Eve K., age 8, Boulder, CO
    (May 15, 2010)
  • If you weighed all the food all spiders everywhere eat in one year, it would weigh more than all the people on earth! I found this fact in an insect & arachnid fact book.

    Submitted by Greta S., age 8, St. Paul, MN
    (October 30, 2009)