All You Need to Know About Spiders Spiders.

Contents: Facts on Structure and Function (Getting to Know You: A First Look at Spiders; How Do Spiders See? How Do Spiders Hear, Smell, Taste and Feel? Muscles and Hydraulics: How Spiders Move; How Can Spiders Grow Despite an Exoskeleton? Poison Without Sting: The Weapon of Spiders; Silk for Many Purposes: The High-Tech Material of Spiders; Just Sit and Wait? Far from It! Catching Techniques of Spiders; How Spiders Eat: Feeding Through the Straw; Pretty Special: Sex with Spiders); We are Living in a World of Spiders (Some like It Cold: How Spiders Survive Advese Seasons; Camouflage and Deception: How Do Spiders Defend Themselves Against Enemies? Useful or Irritating? The Importance of Spiders in Our Environment; Lots of Them and Everywhere: Species Richness of Spiders; Globalization, or the Worldwide Dispersal of Spider Species; My Home is My Castle: Common Spiders in and Aroud the House; Who's Who in the Neighbourhood: Common Spiders in the Garden amd Its Surroundings); Our Emotional Attitude Towards Spiders (Big Fear of Small Animals: Where Our Fear of Spiders Comes from; Concerning a Tense Relationship: Of Humans and Spiders; Spiders as Pets?); Appendix; References; Index.