Description: A spider is not an insect. In fact a spider is more closely related to a scorpion and a horseshoe crab than a housefly. Spiders belong to a class of animals called arachnids. Although there are more than 30,000 kinds of spiders living on Earth, this book takes a close-up look at some of the species most common in the United States. There are sections devoted to garden spiders, money spiders, crab spiders, wolf spiders, bolas spiders, zebra spiders, house spiders, spitting spiders, black widow spiders, daddy longlegs, trapdoor spiders, tarantulas, lynx spiders, and water spiders. At the end of the book, the author presents a variety of fun facts about spiders.

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