A Hotlist on spiders

A Hotlist on spiders
An Internet Hotlist on spiders

created by Samantha Shannon

Introduction | spider fear and bites | general info | pics | spacific topic

Introduction

Spiders are a common fear for most children and adults but spiders do not attack people without a reason. They are actually more afraid of us than we are of them and most their bites are a result of us intruding on their territory. Spiders territories are located around the world and depending on the species, spiders can live in very hot desert areas or cooler humid areas. Becasue of the diverse environment in the USA their are about 1000 species of spiders. They belong to a class of animals known as arachnids and are closely related to ticks, mites, and daddy-longlegs.
Along with the many environments spiders also have different behaviors, colors, sizes, and life spands. For example the turantula has a life spand of about 15 years. As for the bahavior the different species depict some of the spacific behviors performed by spiders. Such as young spiders often become cannibals and eat each other after birth. Spiders can also be found with different colors and those colors can reflect the amount of poison or the species they are related to. Spiders are also a major part of our environment and the food chain depends on their survival just like any other prominant species.

The Internet Resources

spider fear and bites

spider identification- Dangerous- Venemous? - This site reviews the dagerous spiders and venemous ones. This is a very thorough site becasue it has pictures of all of the spders that they mention and give very detailed descriptions. The descriptions inculde weather their venemous or not, time you have to live after being biten, and there habitats,
I would give this a 5 spider rating
arachnephobia - This site includes the fear of spiders and links to books on the same topic . It also includes informaton on mites, scorpians, ticks and many more... It also has many links.
i would give this a 3 spider rating
spider bites - This site has statistics of spider bites and how to survive a spider bite. Also the most common venemous spiders and the look alikes. It has pics of spacific spiders.
i would give this a 5 spider rating

general info

spiders - this web site has information on the general population of spiders and medical care for bites. This also incudes the anatomy of a spider and an acumulation of reserch in australlia over a couple of semesters in a school year.
i would give this a 3 spider rating
spiders and other arachnids at UC Riverside - This dite has a more general servay of spiders found around and near UC riverside and the common myths of spiders. The reserch is done by UC riverside and spacific information on the myths of the brown spider.
i would give this a 3 spider rating
along came a spider - This web page is in an essy form and has information about the fear of spiders. This is reserch by the University of New Hampshire and inculdes spacific information about the amount of species of spiders (1000) in America.
i would give this a 5 spider rating
spider FAQ's - This site has every question that you would ever want to know about spiders. From general information, to spacifics on fears and bites. This web site is easy to access and is very well organized.
i would give this a 5 spider rating

pics

spiders - This wb page gives many examples of pics of spider webs, It does not have much description but the pics are self explanitory. It also has the scientific name of the spider web. It was very though about spider webs but did not have the actually spider that would have weeeved it.
i would give this a 2 spider rating

spacific topic

spiders in and around the house - this web site has information on common house spiders. This is reserch from the ohio university. It has a helpfull list of the common names of house spiders and there scientific names.
I would give this a 4 spider rating.
spiders - This web page reviews the many habitats of spacific spiders. It aslo inculed the anatomy, life cycle, and webs. It also gives links to other helpfull sites about spiders.
i would give this a 4 spider rating
garden spider - This site gives information on the common garden spider. This site is an overview of its habitats, food, and webs. Anything you want to know about the garden spider will be in here.
i would give this a 4 spider rating
the turantula - This site has information on the most feared and popular spider; the turantula. The site is not very informal but it has links to many books and other related web pages. < br> i would give this a 5 spider rating

Content by Samantha Shannon
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Last revised Tue Mar 9 11:02:44 US/Pacific 2004