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Thursday 9 June 2016

Spider Information Report

Walht: Identify key ideas and use them to write an information report.

Spiders aren't insects, and they are classified as arachnids. The difference between an arachnid and an insect is that arachnids have 8 legs and insects have 6 legs. Spiders are commonly mistaken of being insects because of the fact that they have the same shaped body.

Spiders tend to prey on small insects including ants and beetles. Spiders always spin their webs in dark areas and isolated places such as trees and dark corners of houses. They do this to keep themselves safe from larger predators like anteaters and frogs. But in a case when a spider abandons a web it is called a cobweb.

Spiders give birth to 1000s of spider babies. The female has to eat the male in order to do so. The babies are very small when they are first born, but they progressively grow larger. 

The largest known spider in Australia is the " Giant Huntsman Spider". The adult size of these creatures is 65cm! And each leg is as long as 30cm! Unlike an ordinary spider, this goes for larger prey, like birds, squirrels, and sometimes even tarantulas! They are lightning fast and they are big eaters.

There are currently thousands of species of spiders known today.
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