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EIGHT-LEGGED

ASSASSINS

Humans are not the only animals

that live in fear of spiders

Words Victoria Williams

A Spiders are known for their webs,
ll but one of the world’s 40,000 catching lizards and even small birds.
known spider species are
predatory. Between them these
but many species have their own
deadly hunters are thought to
alternative tactics and techniques,
from the long-distance leap of
kill and devour hundreds of
millions of tons of prey each year, controlling the jumping spiders to the
invertebrate populations and maintaining determined patience of
balance in their ecosystems. Most spiders the spiders that lie in
prefer to feast on insects and other wait concealed in the
arachnids, but some are capable of centres of flowers.

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