SpidersSpiders belong to a group of animals called arachnids.

A spider can be big and fluffy or scaly. Spiders have eight legs, eight eyes, fangs and a body divided into two.Tarantulas have bodies that grow up to 12 cm long!

Spiders like to eat by sucking the blood out of whatever flies into their web. For example flies and mosquitoes. You can find spiders in woodlands, forests and grasslands.

Spiders have jaws or fangs that inject poison into their prey.Some spiders have a poison that kills their prey. Others have a poison that just paralyses their prey. Spiders hold their prey while they bite with their fangs.

I think spiders are cool (that’s when they don’t bite me) although they can be poisonous and dangerous, some are not.