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The Little Book of Spiders.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollard, Simon.
- Series:
- Little Books of Nature Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiders.
- Arachnida.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The Little Book of Spiders".
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Evolution
- Arachnid ancestors
- Rock fossil spiders
- Life on land
- Fossils in amber
- Aerial webs
- Spiders are everywhere
- 2. Structures
- Spider brains
- A skeleton on the outside
- How spiders breathe
- Heart and circulation
- Fluid feeders
- Huge appetite
- 3. Sensing the World
- Keeping upright
- "Listening" in webs
- "Listening" on the ground
- "Listening" in the air
- Amazing eyes
- Sniffing perfumes
- 4. Successful Silk
- Building an orb web
- Liquid gold
- Hanging by a thread
- Protective cocoons
- Spiders can fly
- Ant eaters
- 5. Reproduction
- Sperm webs and eggs
- Courting with and without gifts
- Males fighting males
- Females figuring out males
- Mating with cannibals
- Maternal instincts
- 6. Overpowering Prey with Venom
- Spider syringes
- A painful experiment
- Stopped in their tracks
- People and venoms
- Unusual prey
- Flesh-dissolving spider venom
- 7. Hunting with a Web
- Bowl and doily web
- Wall of webs
- A smelly moth trap
- Trap doors
- Slingshot spiders
- Casting a net
- 8. Hunting without a Web
- Portia: a spider-eating-spider
- Fishing spiders
- Spitting spiders
- As still as a statue
- Wolf spiders
- A vampire-killing spider
- 9. Spider Enemies
- Saved by a spider sculpture
- Staying off the menu
- Saved by bird droppings
- Spinning out of control
- From burrow to deadly bath
- A tarantula's worst nightmare
- 10. Extraordinary Lives
- Escaping danger
- Spider influencers
- Tool-using spider
- Cutting-edge spider research
- Living with spiders
- Appreciating the elderly
- 11. Spider Folklore
- The story of Arachne
- Robert the Bruce
- Tarantism
- Weaving Charlotte's web
- Spider myths and medicine
- Tarantulas at the movies
- 12. Curious Facts
- An almost vegetarian spider
- Spider superpowers.
- Spiders can count
- Enormous orb web
- No venom, no problem
- Social spiders
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780691251813
- 0691251819
- OCLC:
- 1410593046
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