Spiders

If you need answers to basic spider questions on topics including webs, habitat, and eating habits, this page might be a good place to start.

The Arachnology Home Page

The Arachnological Hub of the World Wide Web - a repository and directory of arachnological information on the Internet.

Common Spiders Found Around Homes and Buildings

This page offers information about spiders commonly found in Kentucky, though the information is also applicable to other areas of North America.

Explorit Science Center: Science Facts

This page offers a very basic intro to spiders.

Lancaster County Pest and Wildlife Resources

This page offers information on arachnids found in Lancaster County, Nebraska.

Spiders

This page offers a wide range of basic information about spiders.

Spiders In and Around the House

This fact sheet contains information on the various common household spiders, with sharing their space as well as solutions to some of those worries.

What is a Spider?

This site offers a lot of basic information on spiders, and very specific information about a handful of species, generally those specific to Australia.

Spiders of NW Europe

This site offers an amazing amount of information about the general biology of spiders.

Spider Anatomy - Your ultimate resource for all things with eight legs!

This website is a beautifully presented, useful resource for those looking for information on spider anatomy.

Southwest Educational Development Library

This site provides is geared toward elementary school teachers, providing lesson plans and discussion topics for studying and understanding arachnids.

Spider Pages

These pages are the result of a theme of work on Spiders by Year 5G 10 year old children at Rochedale State School in Australia.

Lesson plan: Spider Webs

This page offers a couple of basic lesson plans involving spiders. Please see the appropriate links on this page.

Spider Lesson Plans and Themes

This page offers many ideas for lesson plans involving spiders.

Spiders at EnchantedLearning.com

If you're building a lesson plan around spiders, this site offers craft ideas, rhymes, colorable printouts and other ideas.

Insectlopedia Lesson Plans

Along with many other themes, this site also offers suggested lesson plans on spiders. Check out the links on their main page.

Common Spiders Found Around Homes and Buildings

This page discusses spiders found in Kentucky and provides pictures.

Steve's Spider Pictures

Steve Clark lives in Australia and takes pictures of spiders with his digital camera. These pictures are of spiders in their natural habitat.

Location Chart

This site provides a series of questions geared towards helping you identify a spider.

Troy's Picture Gallery

There are beautiful, colourful pictures of many different types of spiders on this site.

Spiders of North-West Europe

This site provides pictures of dozens of spiders, in their natural habitat.

GM Goat spins web based future

A goat that produces spider's web protein is about to revolutionise the materials industry.

Artificial Spider Silk

"Scientists vie to synthesize the precious strands of the golden orb weaver"

Construction of a Web

Diagrams of the steps a spider follows in constructing her web.

The spider web and thread

This page provides detailed information on spider silk, the spinning of the web and other related subjects.

Arachnids and Silk Production

This page discusses the various uses of silk, beyond and including web construction.

Spider Myths: Color-coding? No such luck!

This page discusses the difficulties inherent in identifying spiders.

Spider Myths

Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids at the Burke Museum in Washington State, debunks a variety of myths about spiders on this friendly and useful page.

The Spiders of Kentucky

Information about spider anatomy, general habits and identification, with a focus on spiders found in Kentucky, USA.

A Guide to Missouri Spiders

This page offers profiles on a wide variety of spiders.

Spiders of NW Europe

Information on various spiders, including pictures, summaries and anatomy details.

A Checklist of Manitoba Spiders

The spider fauna of Manitoba is compared with that of British Columbia, Quebec, and Newfoundland.

Meet Some Spooky Spiders

This site provides information on spiders in the south-east Queensland.

Lancaster County Pest and Wildlife Resources

This page offers information on arachnids found in Lancaster County, Nebraska.

Common Spiders Found Around Homes and Buildings

This page offers information about spiders commonly found in Kentucky, though the information is also applicable to other areas of North America.

Poisonous Spiders of Kentucky

Provides information on identifying the brown recluse and black widow spiders as well as detailed information about their bites.

Straight Dope Staff Reports: How likely are poisonous spider bites?

The Straight Dope staff fields a question from a reader about bites from poisonous spiders.

Entomology - Causes of Necrotic Wounds other than Brown Recluse Spider Bites

Rick Vetter, MS discusses "alleged" brown recluse bites.

Spiders of Medical Importance

This site discusses poisonous spiders.

Straight Dope Mail Bag

This page provides information about how venoms are analyzed to establish their toxicity in relation to other venoms.

Spider Envenomations, Black Widow for Emergency Medicine

Information on treating spider bites.

Black Widow Fact Sheet

This page provides a fact sheet on the Black Widow.

Black Widow Spiders and Other Spiders of Medical Importance

This page discusses spiders of medical importance.

The Black Widow

Offers a profile on Black Widow spiders.

Hobo Spider Web Site: Widow Spiders

This page discusses the various members of the widow spider family, including the black widow and less dangerous relatives.

Black Widow Spiders in the Low Desert

This page discusses the variety of black widow found in Arizona, including preventing and management tips and a detailed description.

Spider Envenomations, Brown Recluse for Emergency Medicine

Information on treating spider bites.

Entomology - Causes of Necrotic Wounds other than Brown Recluse Spider Bites

Rick Vetter, MS discusses "alleged" brown recluse bites.

Brown Recluse Spider

This site discusses the habits of Brown Recluse Spiders and the treatment of their bites.

Brown Recluse Spider: Photos and Observations

This page is a collection of personal observations and photos of the brown recluse.

Identifying and Misidentifying the Brown Recluse

This Dermatology Online Journal is one doctors comments on the misidentification of bites as being caused by the Brown Recluse.

Mark's Brown Recluse Spider Bite Site

This site collects information on brown recluse spiders bites and tracks information about them. There is a searchable database containing information on treatments, bite location, bite severity and regional distribution.

Spider Envenomations, Funnel Web for Emergency Medicine

Information on treating spider bites.

Clinical Toxinology Home Page

Contains information on how to handle spider and snake bites when complete (mostly Australian spiders).

Entomology - Causes of Necrotic Wounds other than Brown Recluse Spider Bites

Rick Vetter, MS discusses "alleged" brown recluse bites.

Table of Contents: Emergency Medicine

This page contains links to information on the treatment of various instances of coming into contact with spider venom.

Spider Envenomations, Red Back for Emergency Medicine

Information on treating spider bites.

Burte's Backyard Fact Sheets

Information on Redback spiders.

Minibeasts Australia - Redback Spider

Information on the Redback Spider.

Pest of the Month

Information on the Hobo Spider in Wisconsin.

The Hobo Spider Web Site

This is an informational web site dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge regarding the hobo spider.

Arachnodata

This site focuses primarily on scorpions, but also includes some information on spiders.

Spyda-webb Beginners Section

New tarantula owners can get information on how to prepare for their pets on this practical page. The webmaster even provides an email address for people who need additional help.

Spider Envenomations, Tarantula for Emergency Medicine

Information on treating spider bites.

American Tarantula Society

Home page of "The Largest Arachnid Society in the World".

Tarantula Care Sheets

Caresheets containing information on a range of tarantula species, including basic information.

The Tarantula's Burrow

If it has eight legs Tarantula or Other Spider, Scorpion or Other Arachnid or no legs Snakes or Snails, then you will find something about it here.

The Tarantulas

This is a tarantula specific site with info on handling and caring for a tarantula.

Wolf Spiders

Basic information and color photos.

Argiope Aurantia: Narrative

This page provides information on the black and yellow spider, also known as the golden orb spider.

Black and Yellow Garden Spider

This page offers another collection of basic information on the black and yellow spider and a color picture.