Do All Spiders Spin Webs

Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780439095860
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do All Spiders Spin Webs? written by Melvin Berger and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yvonne Winer
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613179553
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiders Spin Webs written by Yvonne Winer and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, young readers get a chance to look up close at a stunning variety of webs and spiders from around the world. Concise, lilting verses present each spider, revealing how, when, where, and why these fascinating creatures spin webs. Colorful, detailed illustrations depict each one with dazzling realism. A spider identification guide and additional book and Internet resources are included.

Author : Leslie Brunetta
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300163150
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider Silk written by Leslie Brunetta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ruth Berman
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822536048
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spinning Spiders written by Ruth Berman and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of spiders and how they use their silk for weaving webs and other purposes.

Author : Amanda O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0753479494
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs written by Amanda O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An educational question-and-answer book about insects for kids.

Author : Rainer Foelix
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199734828
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology of Spiders written by Rainer Foelix and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Eberhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653474X
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider Webs written by William Eberhard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ivy Ivy Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1782407502
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiders written by Ivy Ivy Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders of the World explores the huge diversity of spider species and their fascinating traits, with profiles of 117 families accompanied by expert commentary and beautiful photographs.

Author : Tim Hopgood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466896159
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walter's Wonderful Web written by Tim Hopgood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A determined little spider named Walter is trying to make a sturdy web that will stand up to the blustery wind. The webs he makes at first are woven in special shapes--a triangle, a square, a circle--but they are still wibbly-wobbly. Can Walter make a web that is both wonderful and strong? This simple, vibrant adventure is a lively companion to our two previous Tim Hopgood "first books": Wow! Said the Owl, about colors; and Hooray for Hoppy!, about the five senses.

Author : Klaus Mainzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110886936
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetries of Nature written by Klaus Mainzer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: