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    The document discusses spiders and provides facts about their anatomy, behavior, silk production, and phobias related to spiders. It notes that spiders have eight legs and fangs that can inject venom. It describes the internal anatomy of spiders and differences between their body segments. The document also discusses observations of spider behavior like predation and grooming, as well as silk properties and uses. Finally, it provides details on jumping spider eyes and vision, daddy long legs anatomy, and debunks myths about their ability to bite humans.

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    The document discusses spiders and provides facts about their anatomy, behavior, silk production, and phobias related to spiders. It notes that spiders have eight legs and fangs that can inject venom. It describes the internal anatomy of spiders and differences between their body segments. The document also discusses observations of spider behavior like predation and grooming, as well as silk properties and uses. Finally, it provides details on jumping spider eyes and vision, daddy long legs anatomy, and debunks myths about their ability to bite humans.

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    Let’s talk about ………

    S P I D E R S

    NID KURUKSHETRA

    GROUP PROJECT: SENSE PERCEPTION AND ENVIONRMENT

    MEMBERS OF THE GROUP:

    NILESH ANSH MADHUMANTI SHALINI PARIKSHIT

    FACULTY MEMBERS:

    Ms. Mamta Gautam, Ms. Shruti Tomar, Mr. Mohit Shelare, Ms.Aasma Tulika
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    SPIDERS

    (Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Arthropoda,

    Subphylum: Chelicerata, Class: Arachnida, Order: Araneae)

    SOME FACTS ….

    1. Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs called chelicerae

    with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.

    2. They are the largest order of Arachnids and rank seventh in total species

    diversity among all orders of organisms.

    3. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica in the

    South Pole and have become established in nearly every land habitat.

    4. Similarly, arguments can be formed against use of the term abdomen, as the

    opisthosoma of all spiders contains a heart and respiratory organs, organs

    atypical of an abdomen.

    5. Spider silk provides a combination of lightness, strength and elasticity that is

    superior to that of synthetic materials, and spider silk genes have been
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    inserted into mammals and plants to see if these can be used as silk

    factories.

    ANATOMY

    Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that

    the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or

    prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical

    pedicel, however, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological

    evidence that spiders ever had a separate thorax-like division, there exists an

    argument against the validity of the term cephalothorax, which means fused

    cephalon (head) and the thorax.


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    Arachnophobia

    An irrational fear of spiders is called arachnophobia, which apparently all of our group

    members have, we get freaked

    We must have evolved some salt of built in creepy crawley detection system for strange

    Slithery movements. Studies show that many people don't even have encountered a

    spider before being afraid of them comma and the Arachnid a virgin is heritable so there

    might be genetics at play.


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    Salticidae

    Jumping spiders, which are the family Salticidae, are best known for their hilariously

    flamboyant mating dances.

    1.) Their large front eyes that make for adorable close-ups and their itty-bitty size —

     some of the more than 6,000 known species of jumping spiders are smaller than a

    sesame seed.

    2.) The jumping spider has camera-type eyes, similar to those of humans and most

    other vertebrates. Each of the spider’s eyes has a single lens that focuses light onto

    a retina. But that sharp vision covers only a small portion of the spider’s field of view.

    3.) Like the spider, we focus our attention on a relatively small area and largely ignore

    the rest until something catches our attention. Each of the jumping spider’s four pairs

    of eyes has a different job and behaves independently, but they all work together.

    4.) A jumping spider’s principal eyes can concentrate on preparing to pounce on dinner,

    while the other eyes notice and ignore any number of less relevant things. But if

    those secondary eyes spot something that’s getting bigger, well, that could be an

    approaching predator that requires immediate attention.


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    OBSERVATION-NOTES

    Now, we took notes on the Observations we did on the behaviour of the Spiders we caught, and
    saw them occur. We encouraged behaviour of the Spiders by providing prey for predation,
    lightly misting them with water to get them to groom, poking at them gently to see how it
    responds to a predator.

    1.) Spiders are likely to be more active in cages that have lots of places for them to attach
    webs or walk around on such as twigs and leaves, etc

    2.) We noticed the spider for 30 minutes a day for 2 days, so as to see when they are active
    and do interesting things. We increased our odds of perceiving behaviour by observing
    several spiders. All spiders can readily be captured, without actually touching them, with
    jars and containers.
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    Shelter and Silk

    Spider Silk is one of the finest and strongest materials.

    Silk exceptional Mechanical properties are far from being achieved by any synthetic fibre.

    The toughness in the uniqueness comes by the nano scale of the spider's silk.

    The molecular structure determines silk elasticity and simultaneously makes silk extremely
    resistant to rupture by mechanical force.

    Silk fibre is 10 times stronger than Kevlar, it is 5 times tougher than the Steel, it is twice as
    elastic as nylon.
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    LONG LEGGED CELLER OR DADDY LONG LEGS

    They are characterized by having one basic body segment which shows
    segmentation on the posterior portion, at most 2 eyes and all 8 legs attach
    to the pill-like body segment. They are usually found under logs and rocks,
    prefer moist habitat although they can be found in the desert, often have
    long flexible legs (in the temperate Northern hemisphere but there are also
    short-legged daddy-longlegs). They do not produce silk so therefore they
    are never found in webs unless they are being eaten by spiders. Because
    they are found under logs and other stuff which people most often are not
    turning over, most folks don't run into daddy-longlegs very often.

    What about their fangs being too short to penetrate human skin?

    Pholcids do indeed have short fangs, which in arachnological terms is


    called "uncate" because they have a secondary tooth which meets the fang
    like the way the two grabbing parts of a pair of tongs come together. Brown
    recluse spiders similarly have uncate fang structure and they obviously are
    able to bite humans. There may be a difference in the musculature that
    houses the fang such that recluses have stronger muscles for penetration
    because they are hunting spiders needing to subdue wandering prey
    whereas pholcid spiders are able to wrap their prey and don't need as
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    strong a musculature. So, again, the myth states as fact something about
    which there is no scientific basis.

    ~ THANK YOU ~

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