Do All Spiders Spin Webs?

Do All Spiders Spin Webs?

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  • Author: Melvin Berger
  • Publisher: Scholastic
  • ISBN: 9780439095860
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 48

This easy-to-read book provides young readers with answers to commonly asked questions about spiders and their habitat, eating habits, and webs. Simultaneous.


Spiders Spin Webs

Spiders Spin Webs

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  • Author: Yvonne Winer
  • Publisher: Turtleback Books
  • ISBN: 9780613179553
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

With this book, young readers get a chance to look up close at a stunning variety of webs and spiders from around the world. Concise, lilting verses present each spider, revealing how, when, where, and why these fascinating creatures spin webs. Colorful, detailed illustrations depict each one with dazzling realism. A spider identification guide and additional book and Internet resources are included.


Spider Webs

Spider Webs

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  • Author: William Eberhard
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 022653474X
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 679

In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.


Web-Spinning Spiders

Web-Spinning Spiders

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  • Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
  • Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
  • ISBN: 1512485209
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 24

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Learn about the many intriguing aspects of spiders, including their body parts and structure, their habitat and how it supports them, and how they use webs to catch their next meal. Captions point out key visual details that readers can glean from the book's photographs, and chapter headings assist readers with locating information and main ideas. In addition, readers will find text features such as a labeled photo diagram, glossary, and index in the back of the book.


I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs

I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs

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  • Author: Amanda O'Neill
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 0753479494
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

An educational question-and-answer book about insects for kids.


Spinning Spiders

Spinning Spiders

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  • Author: Ruth Berman
  • Publisher: Lerner Publications
  • ISBN: 9780822536048
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of spiders and how they use their silk for weaving webs and other purposes.


Spider Silk

Spider Silk

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  • Author: Leslie Brunetta
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 0300163150
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.


Symmetries of Nature

Symmetries of Nature

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  • Author: Klaus Mainzer
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110886936
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 696


Biology of Spiders

Biology of Spiders

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  • Author: Rainer Foelix
  • Publisher: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 0199734828
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 428

One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third edition, and has established itself as the supreme authority on these fascinating creatures. Containing five hundred new references, this book incorporates the latest research while dispelling many oft-heard myths and misconceptions that surround spiders. Of special interest are chapters on the structure and function of spider webs and silk, as well as those on spider venom. A new subchapter on tarantulas will appeal especially to tarantula keepers and breeders. The highly accessible text is supplemented by exceptional, high-quality photographs, many of them originals, and detailed diagrams. It will be of interest to arachnologists, entomologists, and zoologists, as well as to academics, students of biology, and the general reader curious about spiders.


Spiders

Spiders

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  • Author: Gail Gibbons
  • Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 1430130628
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

"...bright illustrations and simple text, pleasantly presented in read-along form, should be welcomed by budding entomologists." -School Library Journal