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Author: Melvin Berger Publisher: Scholastic Reference ISBN: 9780439148818 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
This easy-to-read book provides young readers with answers to commonly asked questions about spiders and their habitat, eating habits, and webs. Simultaneous.
Author: Melvin Berger Publisher: Scholastic Reference ISBN: 9780439148818 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
This easy-to-read book provides young readers with answers to commonly asked questions about spiders and their habitat, eating habits, and webs. Simultaneous.
Author: Leslie Brunetta Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300163150 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.
Author: William Eberhard Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022653474X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 679
Book Description
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
Author: Rainer Foelix Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199734828 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 428
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One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third edition, and has established itself as the supreme authority on these fascinating creatures. Containing five hundred new references, this book incorporates the latest research while dispelling many oft-heard myths and misconceptions that surround spiders. Of special interest are chapters on the structure and function of spider webs and silk, as well as those on spider venom. A new subchapter on tarantulas will appeal especially to tarantula keepers and breeders. The highly accessible text is supplemented by exceptional, high-quality photographs, many of them originals, and detailed diagrams. It will be of interest to arachnologists, entomologists, and zoologists, as well as to academics, students of biology, and the general reader curious about spiders.
Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman Publisher: Lerner Publications ™ ISBN: 1512421685 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 27
Book Description
Learn about the many intriguing aspects of spiders, including their body parts and structure, their habitat and how it supports them, and how they use webs to catch their next meal. Captions point out key visual details that readers can glean from the book's photographs, and chapter headings assist readers with locating information and main ideas. In addition, readers will find text features such as a labeled photo diagram, glossary, and index in the back of the book.
Author: Gail Gibbons Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group ISBN: 1430130628 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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"...bright illustrations and simple text, pleasantly presented in read-along form, should be welcomed by budding entomologists." -School Library Journal
Author: Melvin Berger Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0064452077 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 44
Book Description
Find out all about the many kinds of webs spiders spin in this level 2 Let′s Read and Find Out. How do spiders spin such large webs? Spiders produce a unique silk that can stretch from wall to wall, or between the legs of a chair. In this book, featuring remarkably realistic artwork by S.D. Schindler, you will learn about the silk spiders produce, the webs they spin, and the prey they capture. You will even learn how to make a web of your own! Ages 5-9
Author: Melvin Berger
Author: Melvin Berger
Author: Leslie Brunetta
Author: Ruth Berman
Author: Amanda O'Neill
Author: William Eberhard
Author: Rainer Foelix
Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
Author: Gail Gibbons
Author: Melvin Berger
Author: Melissa Stewart