Serena’s Spider Report
Spider can be many colours. Spiders have two body parts 8 legs, a brain, stomach, eyes and mouth. Most spiders have spinnerets and fangs. The size of a spider 2.5 cm to 30 cm.
Spider favourite places to live are on the edges of the ocean, on plant, under rocks and in caves spiders live almost everywhere on earth. Most spiders live on a webs. Webs are made of spider’s silk.
The life cycle of a spider starts with an egg. After 4 weeks a spider hatches from the egg sac and is a spiderling. Then the spiderling is carried by their mother until they are ready to jump off their mother. In autumn females mate lay their eggs before winter.
Spiders predators are wasps, ants, praying mantis, snakes, birds, lizards, scorpions and small mammals. They eat small mammals and other insects such as ants, slaters, flies and millipedes.