Freaky Spider Facts Trivia Quiz

Answer: No

A water spider has a home underwater and uses air bubbles from the surface to survive. When the air bubble runs out, the spider grabs another bubble from the surface and returns to the water to continue living.

Answer: False

Daddy long legs are not spiders, but a group of arachnids known as harvestmen. Because a daddy long legs is so small the two sections (head and thorax) of the body are combined to make one, unlike a spider which has two body sections or an insect, which has three body sections. They can use their legs as distractions to get away from predators by breaking off one of the sections of the long leg, shocking the predator long enough for the daddy long legs to escape. Their body size is no more than seven millimeters long, making their legs the biggest part of them.

Harvestman are different from spiders in that they have no way to spin a web and they have no venom. These spiders are also known as cellar spiders.

Answer: The spider can lay eggs

Oviparous animals are animals that can lay eggs. Most spiders and insects are oviparous.

Answer: Greek mythology

Arachne was a weaver that gloated of how much better a weaver she was than Athena, the goddess of crafts. Arachne beat Athena at a weaving contest and Athena turned Arachne into a spider as punishment.

Answer: No

A banana spider eats the cockroaches that live on bananas. To eat his food, a spider stuns the prey with his fangs, shoots it with juice that turns the prey into pulp, and sucks the insides out.

Answer: Pedipalps

The pedipalps on a spider are located under the eyes. They look like two short versions of spider's legs, but really they help the spider taste the food that it is eating. If you want to know how to tell if a spider is male or female, the pedipalps can tell you. Male spiders have two large palpal organs at the end of the pedipalps for impregnating female spiders.

Answer: Wolf spider

A wolf spider has excellent eyesight. Instead of spinning a web, the wolf spider burrows into a hole and waits for prey to pass. If the prey is really fast, the wolf spider will chase after its prey until it catches up and kills it. The wolf spider has an egg sac attached to its spinnerets so it can carry the babies around while it walks.

After the babies are born, they will attach themselves to the mother's stomach and go around with her until they reach adulthood.

Answer: True

After a spider spins a web, the web hardens and is difficult to break. When a spider is finished in one place, it eats its old web and begins spinning a new web in a new location. A spider will spin its web in the early morning or late at night to get ready for the bugs on their early morning flights.

Answer: Black widow

The black widow spider is the most venomous spider in the United States. The venom it injects into the prey is fifteen times more powerful than the venom in a rattlesnake. An animal is far more likely to die from the venomous bite of a black widow than a human, although human deaths caused by the black widow spider range below one hundred.

Answer: Chelicerae

A spider's fangs are located on the jaws of the spider. A spider's jaws are underneath its eyes. Another name for the jaws of a spider is the chelicerae.