A perfect addition and resource in the classroom, and an intriguing coffee table addition to the Science Cave!
Discover everything you wanted to know about the world of spiders, including their habitat, hunting techniques, anatomy, general characteristics and more! Spiders are fascinating- the most successful of all terrestrial predators in the world! You’ll learn an astonishing array of techniques spiders use for catching their prey – trapping in webs, lassoing, jumping, stealing, chasing, ambushing, spitting, fishing, masquerading as other animals and even attracting prey by mimicking the prey’s pheromones. The photographs are spectacular and extraordinary in detail, and some of them document spider behavior never recorded previously.
The spiders are grouped by their method of hunting:
– Nocturnal hunters
– Trappers: orderly webs
– Daylight: visual hunters
– Trappers: disorderly webs
– Jumping spiders
– Tunnel-web builders
– Ambushers and lurkers
– Nonconformists
- Paperback
- 208 pages
