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1) Arachnids
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Describes the physical traits, behaviors, life cycle, and habitats of arachnids including spiders, scorpions, and ticks. Includes color photographs, a list of facts, and further resources.
2) Arachnids
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Explores arachnids, presenting facts about a wide variety of arachnids, and discusses the scientific skill of classifying animals by common characteristics.
3) Arachnids
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Arachnids are a special group of animals that includes spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites. This attention-grabbing book takes a close look at some of these amazing creatures. Their poisonous fangs help them catch prey and defend themselves. Their complex webs and nets catch food and keep their eggs safe. These are just some of the weird, wild, and wonderful ways that arachnids survive in the wild.
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Tarantulas are the oldest spiders on the planet and have venomous fangs that rival many snakes. They have a combination of five characteristics that make them unique. They are hairy, have dense hair pads with retractable claws and long fingerlike spinnerets. They also have cuspules, which are black studs, all around their mouthparts, used to crush food. Lastly, they have eight eyes set in a rectangular position - yet remain almost blind. Other spiders...
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"Discover Borneo's Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist--in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm--and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans' Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural...
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Do you know the difference between a spider-web and a cobweb? What are the two sections of a spider's body called? Which spider holds the record for the largest legspan? And which species wears the drained corpses of its victims on its back? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Jason Zenobia answers all these questions and more as he talks us through over one hundred facts about our eight-legged friends. So whether you want to know the various...
11) Spider life
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This book describes spiders, including their physical characteristics, behavior, and reproduction.
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Tarantulas are the oldest spiders on the planet and have venomous fangs that rival many snakes. They have a combination of five characteristics that make them unique. They are hairy, have dense hair pads with retractable claws and long fingerlike spinnerets. They also have cuspules, which are black studs, all around their mouthparts, used to crush food. Lastly, they have eight eyes set in a rectangular position - yet remain almost blind. Other...
13) Eight legs
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Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycles of various spiders and other arachnids, including the crab spider, wolf spider, trap door spider, and whipscorpion.
16) Spiderwebs
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Explores the different ways spiders build webs, highlighting how they use these structures to capture their prey. Includes text-related questions, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
19) Tarantulas
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This book introduces readers to the physical characteristics, behaviors, habitat, and life cycle of tarantulas.
20) Scorpions
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This book introduces readers to the physical characteristics, behaviors, habitat, and life cycle of scorpions.