Guide Note:
Spiders are not insects, they have eight legs and two body parts, the abdomen and the thorax.
Fast Facts:
- Spiders eat around 2,000 insects a year, so spiders are good to have around the home
- There are cultures that eat spiders as a delicacy and have been doing so for hundreds of years
- Most spiders have eight eyes though some have no eyes and others have as many as 12 eyes
- Black Widows are the most poisonous spiders in the United States
- There are more than 30,000 species of spiders throughout the world
- The male spider is usually smaller than the female
