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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except Antarctica, and have…

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Spider

Nodes363
Edges362
Triples296
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00551
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related to Coloration · 32
Spider → An, Araneus, Argiope, Argyrodes, Australia, Bilins, Choice, Cyrtophora, Diptera, Environmentally, European, For, Guanine, Homoptera, In, It, Josa, Lepidoptera, Leucauge, Lycosa
related to Socialization · 24
Spider → Agelena, Agelenidae, American, Anelosimus, Bagheera, Dictynidae, Eratigena, Even, For, In, Latrodectus, Madagascar, Mallos, Members, Myrmica, Other, Philoponella, Social, Steatoda, The
related to Fossil record · 19
Spider → Although, Attercopus, Because, China, Daohuogo, Devonian, Earlier, Early Cretaceous, Hence Attercopus, However, In, Inner Mongolia, Its, Mongolarachne, Palaeotarbus, Permarachne, Permian, Silurian, The
related to Bites · 16
Spider → Although, Atracidae, Australian, Brazilian, Even, In, Latrodectus, Loxosceles, Many, Most, Phoneutria, Spiders, The, Their, There, They
related to Spiders in culture · 16
Spider → According, Ancient Greek, Arachne, Athena, Enki's, In, Lydian, Metamorphoses, Ninhursag, Ovid, Phalanx, Roman, Spiders, Sumerian, Uttu, Uttu's
related to Mesothelae · 15
Spider → Arthrolycosidae, Arthromygalidae, Carboniferous, China, Heptathela, Japan, Liphistiidae, Liphistius, Members, Mesothelae, Most, Permian, Southeast Asia, Spiders, The
related to External links · 14
Spider → Aelurillus, Archived, Arid Southwest, International Field Guides, July, Jumping Spiders, List, May, New Mexico State University, Online Videos, Picture, Salticids, The Spiders, Wayback Machine
related to Non-predatory feeding · 14
Spider → Although, Anyphaenidae, Bagheera, Beltian, Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Feeding, Juveniles, Laboratory, Nectar, Salticidae, Since, These, Thomisidae
related to Defense · 12
Spider → Carparachne, Hawaiian, However, In, Many, Most, Namibian, The, Theraphosidae, There, Theridion, These
related to Circulation and respiration · 10
Spider → Hence, However, Hypochilidae, Its, Like, Mesothelae, Mygalomorph, Spiders, The, This

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spiders species webs prey silk arthropods may web insects cephalothorax two abdomen many one genus use family also however although

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chitininstance ofIt is similar in tensile strength to nylon and biological materials0.80text
collageninstance ofIt is similar in tensile strength to nylon and biological materials0.80text
celluloseinstance ofIt is similar in tensile strength to nylon and biological materials0.80text
but is much more elasticinstance ofIt is similar in tensile strength to nylon and biological materials0.80text
Tetragnathainstance ofIn genera0.80text
Leucaugeinstance ofIn genera0.80text
Argyrodes or Theridiosomainstance ofIn genera0.80text
guanine creates their silvery appearanceinstance ofIn genera0.80text
Spiderrelated to ArachnophobiaArachnophobia0.60section
Spiderrelated to ArachnophobiaIt0.60section
Spiderrelated to ArachnophobiaEuropean0.60section
Spiderrelated to AraneomorphaeIn0.60section

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