Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The itsy bitsy spider got lost on my deck...
My mom found this spider... and it was on my deck. it was tiny but briiiight bright yellow. We didnt know what it was so naturally i took some pictures and sent them to a one Mr. Timothy Sanborn and asked what it was... of course he didnt answer me so i put it in a little container and kept it until school started... i couldnt figure out what it ate... i threw some leaves in there to make it seem more homey and a dead fly i found... but it obviously wasnt enough... after about a week of having it @ my house school started and i brought it in for Mr. Sanborn... he didnt know what it was or ate either... its been about another week since school started and the spider still hasnt eating anything and it has molted or whatever... it got new skin. Today i used Mr. S's laptop to figure out what kind of spider it was... at first i thought it was a crab spider but the website said they got the name "crab spider" because they were similarly sized to a crab... this was definitely not the case... so i searched it some more. I looked up images of tiny yellow spiders on google images until i found a match. then i looked for ones that had the name of the spider in the information. i found one that said it was a "goldenrod spider" so i researched those. They sounded the right size and shape and all... i read the site and found out that they eat things like honey bees and grasshoppers. They hide in yellow plants (like goldenrod) for hours at a time and then they grab their prey with their long front legs and inject their venom into their food. then they suck the animal dry. their venom allows them to hunt things much bigger than themselves.... Pretttyyyy neat huh?! Yah... i know. :P
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This is a fantastic example of finding information! Not only did you ask a teacher, but then you used the Internet to find the answer to your question.
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