spider webs

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. Includes lift-the-flaps.

Spiders: the Ultimate Predators features spectacular photographs and information on the 40,000 known species of spiders throughout the world, including their habitats, hunting techniques, anatomy, general characteristics, ranges, and techniques for catching prey.

Easy-to-follow text and full-color photographs provide an introduction to spiders that describes various types of spiders and how they create and use their webs.

An old woman in long-ago Germany cleans her house and decorates her Christmas tree, hoping that this year she will witness some special Christmas Eve magic.

Presents a gallery of spiders and discusses their particular feeding and web-spinning behaviors, featuring the water spider, the Hawaiian happy-faced spider, the cobweb spider, and more, and also outlines how to powder a web for easier viewing.

Provides descriptions of how spiders spin their webs with strings of silk made in their bodies, explains how they use webs to catch insects to eat, and looks at how female spiders use silk to make egg sacs. Includes photographs of different types of spiders and webs.

Discusses the work scientists are doing with the golden orb weaver spider, whose web silk is nearly indestructible, and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins needed to artificially spin the spider silk and produce it in a quantity that will make it realistic to use in health care, in body armor, in parachutes, and much more.

Briefly explains how spiders make silk and use it in various ways.

Explains how a spider spins its web and the many uses of that strong silk.

Describes different kinds of spiders, the types of webs they spin, and they various purposes these webs serve.