From cartwheeling acrobats to giant spiders
the size of your face, here are 10 of the most amazing spiders in the world!!!
10.) Flower Crab Spiders There are over 2,000 species of flower crab
spiders that can be found around the world! They get their name because they often look
like flowers and walk like a crab! Their bright coloring allows them to blend in with flowers
in order to ambush their prey. They are often found in places like gardens, meadows, rainforests,
woodlands, and marshes, basically whereever there are flowers and where it’s not too
cold. Most crab spiders are pretty small (just around
8 millimeters or less) and are not threatening to humans. They can change their coloring
from white to green to yellow to better match the flowers they are sitting on, although
the color change can take several days. Their favorite food are other critters that are
attracted to flowers such as bees, butterflies, and flies.
These little spiders are ambush predators and once a flower crab spider catches its
prey, it uses its two front legs to grasp it and inject their venom. While their venom
can paralyze even large insects, their mouths are too small for their bites to break the
skin. The only exception to this would be the giant crab spider, and if one bites you
on the finger, it can feel like someone hit you with a hammer, but this feeling goes away
after a couple of hours. It is very rare to see them indoors, but if
you do, try to scoop it into a glass and take it outside. They are great for controlling
the other annoying insects you have outside like mosquitoes, flies, and wasps.
9.) Goliath Birdeater The Goliath Birdeater spider is the biggest
tarantula in the world!! It can weigh as much as a puppy and be bigger than your hand. It
is the largest in the world by size and mass (however the record for leg size goes to another
spider- the huntsman). The Goliath Bird-eater is native to the rainforest of South America,
including Venezuela, northern Brazil, French Guiana and Suriname.
It got its name when explorers found one eating a hummingbird! At first, they thought it was
a hairy mammal!! They are so large and heavy that you can hear
their footprints on the ground. They are usually dark brown to black. They have four pairs
of legs, and their third and fourth pair often have little spikes or spines. If this birdeater
feels threatened, they will rub their hind legs together releasing tiny hairs that can
be painful and itchy if they get into your eyes, mouth, or mucus membranes.
While the venom these spiders have is deadly to insects and even small birds and rodents
it is not deadly to humans. But, a bite would be extremely painful because their fangs are
big! Sometimes up to 1.5 inches (3.8 cm). Despite their name, these tarantulas don’t
often eat birds. It is much easier to catch other bugs like earthworms and maybe some
small mammals. You can get these spiders as pets if you really
wanted to, but just beware, females are known to be able to live up to 20 years! However,
males tend to die after maturity, which is about three to five years.
8.) Spiny Orb Weaver The Spiny Orb Weaver spiders look like tiny
little works of art. There are over 2,800 species around the world and can come in all
colors and shapes! But they are most famous for the spines on its body. They also are
known as crab spiders, crab orbweaver spiders and all kinds of other variations- but remember,
don’t confuse them with actual “crab spiders”. They are often brightly colored with red,
white, yellow, black patterns, but there is no limit to their markings! These spiders
are very small, usually between 0.6-2.5 cm (¼ of an inch to an inch) full-size and are
commonly found in trees, gardens, windows, doors, and porches. They make beautiful, circular
webs to catch their prey. The male spiny orb weaver is usually smaller in size than the
female and also tend to have less spines on their abdomen. While the spiny orb weaver
spider can bite and puncture the skin if a spike is touched, these spiders are not dangerous
to humans. They are great from pest control in your garden though! Reportedly, these spiders
only live for about a year. And now for number 7, but first what's your
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7.) Wheel Spider The wheel spider, aka, the golden wheel spider,
belongs to the Huntsman family and is native to the Namib Desert of Southern Africa. This
spider is famous for its cartwheels!! While that might sound cute, it is to help it escape
it’s arch enemy, the parasitic pompilid wasp that will try to paralyse the spider
and then lay an egg in its abdomen which will then take over the spider and eat it from
the inside out. The spider wasp is impressive in its own right because Scientific American
reports that it can sniff out the spider in its burrow and move up to 10 liters of sand,
equivalent to 80,000 times its own body weight, to get to the spider!!
When this spider senses danger, it will curl its legs up to make a ball and roll down the
sand dune to safety at about 20-40 rotations per second- that’s equivalent to a car going
300km per hour!!! The wheel spider does not make webs, but instead
digs burrows below the sand dunes. At night it wanders through the desert in search of
other insects. These spiders are venomous but no danger to humans. We should be more
afraid of this creepy spider wasp!! 6.) Ladybird Spider
The ladybird spider gets its name because the spider looks similar to the ladybird beetle.
However, only mature male ladybird spiders have the classic red body with a few black
spots, while females are velvet black or dark grey. The Ladybird spider was thought to be
extinct in the United Kingdom until it was rediscovered in 1980 and since then a group
has been trying to increase its population and is still considered to be endangered.
The spiders all live in their own burrows until it’s time to mate. Then, males come
out of their burrows looking for females and pluck at the tripwire to make sure the female
knows he is not prey!! Later on the female will lay up to 80 eggs and when they hatch,
she feeds them on regurgitated food. Then, she makes the ultimate sacrifice. As the spiderlings
get older, they begin to eat their own mother and leave to make their own burrows. After
3 or 4 years they will mature and begin the cycle again.
5.) Wrap-Around Spider The wrap-around spider is practically impossible
to spot!! Native to Australia and Oceania, they have really perfected the art of camouflage!!
The wrap-around spider got its name because it can flatten its body will literally wrap
itself around branches or lie flat against tree bark during the day. This helps it avoid
predators like birds and those awful parasitic wasps!!
These spiders can wrap around trees because their underbelly is a concave while the upper
part of its body looks like a disc-shaped shell.
They tend to build a nest at night, usually a large web between two trees where they catch
insects, however their webs are promptly taken down by daylight so they can once again hide
on a twig. These spiders are very tiny, about 5-9 mm in length. And once again, don’t
worry, they aren’t going to hurt you!! 4.) Black Widow
Black Widow spiders are found in North America and are considered to have a powerful, venomous
bite that is more dangerous than the prairie rattlesnake. However, only the female black
widow bite is dangerous to humans and the bite is rarely fatal, but it can produce nasty
side effects such as difficulty breathing and nausea. Usually they will try to run and
hide first, biting is always kept as a last resort. However, if they are constantly being
provoked or if you accidentally grab one in the dark for some reason, then you will get
bitten. When a female black widow is fully grown,
she is usually a shiny black color and has a red or orange hourglass on the underside
of her abdomen. Tough luck for the males this time as the females are known to eat the males
after mating unless he manages to escape!! These spiders spin large webs where they catch
their prey, which are often mosquitos, grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars. However, the spider
rarely hangs out in the middle of the web and will instead remain hidden until something
gets caught. Then the spider will rush out and inject their prey with digestive enzymes
to liquify it and suck up the fluid like a slurpee.
3.) Diving Bell Spider The Diving Bell Spider is also called the
water spider because it tends to live its life under water, only coming up for air about
once a day. The spider creates a bubble, also known as a diving bell, where the spider can
absorb oxygen from the water quickly. They create sub-aqua webs which they fill with
air so they can breathe. Scientists actually believe the spider could live in the bubble
for good if it wasn’t for the nitrogen that shrinks it, causing the spider to travel above
water to make sure its home does not collapse. The spiders do everything in these house bubbles,
including lay their eggs. When out of the water, the spider ranges in color from mid
to dark brown, even though the hairs on the abdomen give it a dark grey, velvet type look.
No wasps here! 2.) Cobalt Blue Spider
The Cobalt blue spider is a tarantula named after the blue color that can be seen on the
adult spiders, when looking at them in a certain light, at first glance they can look more
dark brown or black. Before Cobalt blue spiders mature they tend to have a more greyish blue
color. While scientists suspect there is a very good reason as to why they are blue,
we don’t know what it is yet!! Interestingly enough, the blue color is created in different
way depending on the spider through nanocrystals. Native to Myanmar and Thailand, these spiders
are about medium size for a tarantula, maybe not as big as your face, but still wouldn’t
want to be surprised by one. These spiders tend to bite when threatened.
Their venom can cause inflammation and muscle cramps. They live in burrows and are rarely
seen, usually only coming out of their burrows to hunt for food. They can be pets but it
is not recommended for beginner tarantula owners!
1.) Ornamental Baboon Tarantula The Ornamental baboon tarantula is native
to West Africa and mainly found in the areas of Togo and Ghana. Once these spiders are
fully grown, which tends to take about three years, they can reach a leg span of about
5 inches (12 cm). These spiders are characterized by their chalky white coloration with mottled
black and brown markings. Notably, these tarantulas have very thick rear legs and like to hide
in trees where they can be camouflaged. These spiders can be aggressive and have very strong
venom. In fact they are believed to have one of the most potent venom of all tarantulas!!
They do not have those urticating hairs like the goliath bird eater does so their bite
is their only form of defense. I don’t recommend you handling one!!
Thanks for watching!! Have you ever seen any of these spiders in real life? Let me know
in the comments below!!
