1. Orb Weaver Spider By James Chang

2. Fast Facts Spiders are a class of arachnid. Animals that are in arachnids have eight legs like the scorpions and mites. Arachnids came from the Greek myth about the creation of spiders. There are over 35,000 kinds of spiders in the world! Every spider spins some sort of web.

3. Mouth Part Fangs are for piercing into the hard shells of the insects body. The food that they eat is moths, beetles, and other insects that fly into their webs. The fangs have venom that kill the insect.

4. Body Description The cephalothorax is the head of spider. The abdomen is the spider’s rear body part. The spinneret is the thing that produces web or silk.

5. Head Spider head have eyes that help them to look where there are going and help catch there prey. Spider head have fangs that bite the insect that inject poison into insect and kill the insect. After that they suck out the liquid. The spider head is the cephalothorax which contains the brain and stomach of spider.

6. Spider Abdomen The Abdomen is the spiders rear body part. Inside the abdomen there is the lungs, heart, and silk gland. The silk gland is what produces web and silk to create a web or egg sack.

7. Spider Unusual Characteristic The unusual thing that spiders have is their spinneret's. When the silk comes out of the spinneret it is a liquid. Another unusual thing is that they spin webs. They are the only species that spins a web to catch their food. Spiders have claws and bristles that help them fix their web when it’s damaged, and they help them to not get stuck on their sticky webs.

8. Laying Eggs When a male orb weaver is full grown he searches for mate. The male orb weaver makes a mating thread on the edge of the female's web and will bounce on the web. When the female feels the vibration she will join the male spider on the mating thread.