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1.

Venom Glands
The spiders venom paralyzes prey. Bites are relatively harmless to
humans, comparable to the sting of a bee or wasp.
2. Eyes
Like most spiders, this species has eight eyes but poor vision. The spider
depends more on sensitive hairs on its legs and body to orient itself.
3. Chelicerae
These two appendages end in fangs that inject venom into and hold onto
prey. Females also carry egg sacs between the fangs.
4. Pedipalps
Two leglike feelers on either side of the mouth are used for touching,
tasting, and handling prey. In males, pedipalps also deliver sperm to the
female.
5. Sucking Stomach
After regurgitated digestive juices finish liquefying prey, the sucking
stomach draws in the resulting milkshake of proteins and fat.
6. Book Lungs
Spiders have an open circulatory system in which blood seeps out into
the body and flows back to the heart. Book lungs, named for alternating
spaces of air and hemolymph that resemble leaves of a book, diffuse
oxygen into the bloodstream.
7. Ovaries

A female lays 200 to 400 eggs in spring, fertilizing them with sperm stored
in her body since mating, sometimes months before.
8. Silk Glands
Males weave a silk web on which sperm is deposited and collected on the
pedipalps during copulation. Females weave a silk mat on which to lay
eggs and fashion into an egg sac.
9. Spinnerets
Silk is liquid within but becomes solid as it leaves the body. Internal
pressure pushes silk out of the two pairs of spinnerets (one pair visible
above), where it is pulled by the hind legs.
10. Urticating Hairs
Barbed hairs on the top abdomen are cast off by the hind legs, causing
irritation in predators. One type, concentrated around the periphery,
seems effective against other arthropods; A different type in the center is
deployed against small vertebrates.

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