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Common Spiders of New York
Piders evoke a combination of curiosity and horror in people of all ages. Spiders seeming ability to appear suddenly out of nowhere ontheir fine silk lines can startle anyone. But theirfrightening reputation is largely are fascinatingcreatures! The webs of manyspecies are intricate architectural wonders. They aresuperb predators that capture more prey than all otherterrestrial predators combined. Spiders can be mastersof stealth blendinginto their surroundings or hiding sowell that they are often both insects and Spiders are in the phylumArthropoda, Spiders are in the class Arachnida, whichalso contains scorpions, harvestmen, pseudoscorpionsand ticks. All Spiders (order Araneae) have eight legs,two body segments (cephalothorax and abdomen) sepa-rated by a waist, and unlike the insects, they do nothave chewing mouthparts, antennae or wings. Spiderjaws are called chelicerae, and include hollow fangsthrough which they inject venom to immobilize or killtheir prey on small living invertebrates, such asinsects or other Spiders .
elements. Female cobweb spiders produce light brown, spherical egg sacs that hang in the web. The ven-omous black widow spider with its shiny, black abdomen and red hour-glass design is a cobweb spi-der, but is extremely rare in New York. Crab spiders . Thomisidae . Crab spiders get their name from the way they hold
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