Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
spider
Table of Contents
References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images & Videos
lynx spider
Witness an orb-weaving spider using silk wrappings to immobilize grasshopper prey
spider
Do we really swallow spiders in our sleep?
Red widow spider brown recluse spider sheet-web weaver spider
Know how some spiders walk on the surface of the water
spider: trichobothrium Australian funnel-web spider
For Students
spider summary
Quizzes
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
Read Next
Black widow spider
9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders
Wasp spider. Argiope bruennichi. Orb-weaver spider. Spiders. Arachnid. Cobweb. Spider web. Spider's web. Spider silk. Black and yellow striped wasp spider spinning a web.
Do We Really Swallow Spiders in Our Sleep?
Discover
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time
Orange basketball on black background and with low key lighting. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History

spider: Media

arachnid
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/animal/spider-arachnid/images-videos

Videos

Witness an orb-weaving spider using silk wrappings to immobilize grasshopper prey
A black-and-yellow argiope (Argiope aurantia) capturing a grasshopper in...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Do we really swallow spiders in our sleep?
This myth is based on a web of lies.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Know how some spiders walk on the surface of the water
Learn how some spiders move across the surface of water.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn how scientists imitated specific spider fibers to better handle sticky nanofibers
Description of the use of spider combs.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
See a Selenops arboreal hunting spider's unique ability to glide and steer
Watch a Selenops arboreal hunting spider using its unique ability to steer...
Video: Displayed by permission of The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Behold the multitude of Amazonian arthropods including spiders, scorpions, beetles, and mantids
Among the arthropods of the Amazon Rainforest are spiders (including orb weavers...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Know how some spiders gallop through the water
Learn how some spiders “gallop” across the surface of water.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Witness a spider building, devouring, and rebuilding a web
Time-lapse video of a spider building a web, devouring it, and building a new one.
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
What role do spiders play in the food chain?
Learn about the role spiders play as predators in the food chain.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Study the complex structures of webs created by a Nephila senegalensis and garden spider
Learn about the web-spinning behaviour of the spiders Nephila senegalensis...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

lynx spider
Lynx spider (Peucetia viridans).
Jack Dermid
spider
A spider (order Araneida or Araneae).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Red widow spider
Illustration of a red widow spider (Latrodectus bishopi). The spider is...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
brown recluse spider
Brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) showing the characteristic violin-shaped...
John H. Gerard/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
sheet-web weaver spider
Sheet-web weaver (Linyphia montana).
John Markham/Bruce Coleman Inc.
spider: trichobothrium
The trichobothrium of a spider.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Australian funnel-web spider
An illustration of the potentially deadly Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Brown widow spider
Illustration of a brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Australian funnel-web spider
The venomous Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) striking. If left...
© Fritz Prnzel/Bruce Coleman Inc.
golden garden spider
Golden garden spider (Argiope aurantia), an orb weaver.
John H. Gerard/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
crab spider
Crab spider (Misumenoides aleatorius) awaiting prey in the flower of a thistle.
John H. Gerard
trap-door spider
Trap-door spider (Bothriocyrtum californicum) standing at the entrance to...
Ruth Cordner—Root Resources/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Brazilian wandering spider
Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria nigriventer).
Techuser
Giant huntsman spider
A superlative arachnid, the giant huntsman spider (Heteropoda maxima) has...
© Chris Howes—Wild Places Photography/Alamy
Wolf spider showing eye arrangement, chelicerae, and fang at end of each chelicera
Anthony Bannister/The Natural History Photographic Agency
Burrowing spider
A burrow made by a wolf spider.
Peter
wolf spider
A wolf spider feeding on a centipede.
© Dr. Morley Read/Shutterstock.com
woodlouse spider
Woodlouse spider (Dysdera crocata).
Kemurshel
arachnid diversity
Diversity of arachnids.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
external organization of a spider
External organization of a spider.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Spider anatomy
The internal organization of a spider.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
respiration: animals
Different methods of respiration in animals.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
VIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: