1Nursery web spider
The male nursery web spider will give wrapped gifts to the female, as a mating ritual. If the gift is rejected, the male will play dead and later repeat the process.
2. The “spitting spider” is the only spider that can shoot a web at its prey at speeds too fast for the human eye to see and the web actually has evolved to contract and tighten around its prey; rendering it immobile.
3. The male red widow spiders force feed themselves to the female of their species. If she spits him out, he will keep shoving himself into her mandibles.
4. The Carolina wolf spider is the Official state spider of South Carolina, and South Carolina is the only U.S. State that recognizes a state spider.
5. There is an Annual Tarantula Exhibition, where participants are judged much like dogs in a dog show. Participants are judged on shiny coats, correct proportions, an active demeanor and proper stance. In 2014, the event was attended by more than 30,000 tarantulas and their keepers.
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6Black Widow's bites
Black widow's bites produce muscle aches, nausea, and a paralysis of the diaphragm that can make breathing difficult; however, contrary to popular belief, most people who are bitten suffer no serious damage, let alone death.
7. There isn’t a single reported case of a person dying from a Tarantula bite.
8. Daddy long legs prey upon venomous spiders like the black widow.
9. According to a research conducted at the Miami University, spiders like listening to classical music. When listening to techno and rap, they made their webs as far away from the speaker as possible, but when listening to Bach, they made their webs as near to the speaker as possible.
10. Goliath Birdeater, which is the world’s largest spider, has a leg span the size of a child’s forearm, weighs as much as a puppy, can live for 25 years and has fangs strong enough to pierce skulls.
11Tarantula Lifespan
Tarantula spiders reach full adulthood at around 10 years and female tarantula spiders have been known to live up to 30 or even 40 years.
12. The fangs of an Australian funnel-web spider can penetrate fingernails and shoes.
13. There exists a less venomous, invasive Brown widow spider that is slowly replacing the Black widow.
14. The largest known fossil of a spider is only about half the size of its modern relatives. This means that the biggest spiders that exist today might be biggest spiders that have ever existed.
15. The Corolla spider uses quartz crystals to set traps and catch its prey.
16Golden wheel spider
There is a spider named Golden wheel spider that turns into a "wheel" and cartwheels away when it is in danger.
17. The venom of the Brazilian wandering spider can cause an erection that lasts for hours.
18. In 2009, a rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders went on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. One million golden orb-weaver spiders lent their silk to create a shimmering, golden textile. Each spider had to be caught and “milked” by hand.
19. In 2011, a Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown recluse spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,500 - 6,000 of the spiders.
20. Jumping spiders chase laser pointers.
21Himalayan jumping spider
The Himalayan jumping spider can live at elevations greater than 20,000 feet. It relies on bugs being blown to those heights by the wind for food.
22. Female black widow spiders rarely eat their partners after mating and much of the documented evidence for mate cannibalism has taken place in laboratory cages where the males could not escape.
23. The gigantic, hairy "Goliath birdeater" tarantula spider is entirely harmless and passive toward humans and their bite would hardly compare to the sting of a wasp.
24. There is a spider named Portia which is capable of insight, trial-and-error learning, and puzzle solving due to its source of food, which is, other spiders.
25. Male spiders give female spiders gifts of prey wrapped in silk to increase mating success. Wrapping the gift in silk prevents the female from stealing it without copulating and sometimes male spiders’ concealed gifts are just random trash.
