Arachnophobia Traditional Geocache
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. Arachnophobia Fear of spiders ranks as one of our greatest phobias, along with fears of snakes, heights and public speaking.
Spiders can’t chew or swallow so how do you think they eat? They can only eat liquid lunches! To do this, they inject their prey with poison using their fangs. The poison turns the insides of insect to a watery goop and the spider just sucks it up. The insect will often look normal…except that the body is empty!
Web-spinning spiders will wrap their prey in a web and then crush it’s body with their teeth. They then pour digestive juice over the body and liquefy it. Perfect for sucking it up!
Most spiders have four pairs of eyes on the top-front area of the cephalothorax All spiders have eight legs
Spiders generally use elaborate courtship rituals to prevent the large females from eating the small males before fertilization, except where the male is so much smaller that he is not worth eating. (See size does count) In web-weaving species precise patterns of vibrations in the web are a major part of the rituals, while patterns of touches on the female's body are important in many spiders that hunt actively, and may "hypnotize" the female
Cooked tarantula spiders are considered a delicacy in Cambodia
Provided the highly irritant hairs, the tarantula’s main defense system, are removed first you can eat them. NOT recommended.
Spider silk is the strongest fiber in nature, five times stronger than steel, yet 30 times thinner than human hair A ballooning spider extends a long line of silk that enables it to be carried aloft on winds that can transport the spider to places many miles away.
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