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Here you can learn about spiders their webs and venom, spider anatomy, where they live and much more fun spider facts for kids.

Read on and i hope you really enjoy these interesting facts and information about spiders.

There are around 40000 different spider species.

Spiders are arachnids, not insects, some other members of the arachnid family include scorpions, ticks, mites and harvestmen.

Spiders are invertebrates, they don’t have a backbone.

Spiders have 8 legs while insects have 6, they also don’t have antennae while insects do.

However all spiders have fangs through which they inject their venom.

Spiders have their skeleton on the outside, this is called an exoskeleton.

Spiders can be found on every continent in the world except for Antarctica.

Not all spider species spin webs.

Most spiders produce silk which they use to create their webs and capture prey.

As their Webs get dirty or torn, some spiders will make a new one every day. The old one, isn't wasted though, the spider rolls it up into a ball and eats it!

When abandoned the spider webs are called cobwebs.

Some people feel an abnormal fear of spiders this is called arachnophobia. It's one of the most common fears among humans, and even made it into hollywood movies.

Usually the male spiders are smaller than the females.

For the most part spiders are harmless to humans but a few of them, such as the black widow, can bite and inject venom toxic enough to kill a human. However deaths from spider bites are very rare.

The biggest tarantula species is the Goliath Bird eater while the giant huntsman spider has a leg span of around 12 inches (30 cm).

Camel spiders are very famous but they aren't true spiders, they belong to the Solifugae order of animals

Now you know some really amazing and interesting and fun facts about spiders.

Did You Know?

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the world's biggest lizard species and also one of few venomous lizard species.