itsy bitsy spider
'The itsy, bitsy spider, climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
So the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again.' - Nursery Rhyme
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fun facts:
Spiders are not insects (insects have three body parts and six legs whereby spiders have eight legs, either six or eight eyes and two body parts: the abdomen and the thorax).
Spiders have silk spinning glands (spinnerets) at the tip of their abdomen but not all spiders spin webs.
Spiders belong to the Arachnid family and there are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
Spider bites can be quite painful, and a select few can be fatal; all spiders have fangs, through which venom is ejected.
Fear of spiders is called 'Arachniphobia' and it is one of the most common fears among humans.
Male spiders identify themselves by a variety of complex courtship rituals to avoid being eaten alive by the females, the human species call this behavior 'dating'.
IN HISTORY:
In the Devonian period, about 386 million years ago, spider-like arachnids with silk-producing spigots appear but these creatures apparently lacked spinnerets.
True spiders have been found in Carboniferous rocks from 318 to 299 million years ago, and are very similar to the most primitive surviving order, the Mesothelae.
The main groups of modern spiders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, first appear in the Triassic period, before 200 million years ago.
itsy bitsy spider
'The itsy, bitsy spider, climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
So the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again.' - Nursery Rhyme
© Copyright 2010 - 2012 Tomitheos Photography - All Rights Reserved
fun facts:
Spiders are not insects (insects have three body parts and six legs whereby spiders have eight legs, either six or eight eyes and two body parts: the abdomen and the thorax).
Spiders have silk spinning glands (spinnerets) at the tip of their abdomen but not all spiders spin webs.
Spiders belong to the Arachnid family and there are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
Spider bites can be quite painful, and a select few can be fatal; all spiders have fangs, through which venom is ejected.
Fear of spiders is called 'Arachniphobia' and it is one of the most common fears among humans.
Male spiders identify themselves by a variety of complex courtship rituals to avoid being eaten alive by the females, the human species call this behavior 'dating'.
IN HISTORY:
In the Devonian period, about 386 million years ago, spider-like arachnids with silk-producing spigots appear but these creatures apparently lacked spinnerets.
True spiders have been found in Carboniferous rocks from 318 to 299 million years ago, and are very similar to the most primitive surviving order, the Mesothelae.
The main groups of modern spiders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, first appear in the Triassic period, before 200 million years ago.