spiders – Exact Fact

NASA is estimated to have sent over 2200 animals into space including insects, pigs, monkeys, rats, rabbits and spiders, 2000 were sent on one mission STS-90 in 1998.

A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.

Research shows that if you’re afraid of spiders, you’re more likely to find one in your bedroom.

There are about 173,000 venomous species: from lizards to spiders and fish.

95% of the spiders in your house have never been outside.

Spiders are scared of ants due to the formic acid they contain.

Spiders eat their own webs to recycle them.

Spiders can survive for hours underwater by entering a self-induced coma.

Spiders can walk on water, and breathe under it, too.

Spiders don’t have penises. They mate with the appendages on their face.

Many female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

Orb spiders mummify their prey before they kill it.

Spiders, lobsters and snails have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin which contains copper.

There are approximately 38,000 known species of spiders.

The brains of some small spiders overflow into their legs.

Spiders can get high and build different kinds of webs while on weed, caffeine, mescaline and LSD.

Spiders can tune the strings in their webs to transmit specific messages.

Some spiders disguise themselves as ants by pretending their two front legs are antennae.

Male wolf spiders will engage in threesomes during mating season to increase their chances of escaping cannibalism.

Butterflies have 4 eyes, bees have 5 eyes, most spiders have 8 eyes and Caterpillars have 12 eyes.