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Spider Prey Challenge
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| How did you do? Scroll down to see the answers filled in correct places. Thanks for trying out our game and we hope you enjoyed learning more about these denizens of Halloween. |
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Crab Spiders
Hints: It's a master of disguise. Changes its color to match its flowery ambush site. Eats daytime nectar-seeking insects. When its prey lands on a flower, the spider attacks, injecting the insect with venom which paralyzes it.
A Crab Spider's prey is the honeybee. |
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Hammock Spiders
Hints: A tiny spider, about the size of your pinkie fingernail that hangs upside down underneath its web. When a tiny insect gets trapped in its sticky web, the spider bites it through the web!
A Hammock Spider's prey is the midge. |
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Trapdoor Spiders
Hints: Digs a silk-lined burrow in the ground with a hinged "trapdoor" at the top. Hides inside the burrow waiting for an insect to wander by.
A Trapdoor Spider's prey is the ground beetle. |
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Bola Spiders
Hints: A nighttime hunter, it throws a silk ball on a long threat at night-flying insects. After the sticky silk ball hits the winged insect, it hauls in its catch.
A Bola Spider's prey is the moth. |
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Orb Weavers
Hints: Spends more than an hour building a large, round web high off the ground. Waits for a flying insect to buzz into its web. The sticky strings will trap it until the spider can kill and eat it.
An Orb Spider's prey is the housefly. |
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Garden Spiders
Hints: Weaves sticky round webs in high grass and low bushes to trap hopping insects. When the spider feels the web shaking, it knows it has its prey!
A Garden Spider's prey is the grasshopper.
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