This challenging
3-D tarantula puzzle can be found at Tapir and Friends Wildlife World online.
Spiders, like any other animal, fit into their own niche in the scheme of the planet. If they were somehow to disappear, we'd be overrun with insects. (And of course, we couldn't enjoy their beautiful webs!) I'm just glad that humans are not their prey. Sue found the following quote while reading Lisa Gardner's new book,
Say Goodbye. Since it's a thriller, the information is calculated to be creepy. Here goes:
". . . spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen."
~ From "Spider Woman," by Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, March 5, 2007.
The spider shown above is plastic, and will not behave like a real spider, although it looks a lot like one. We also have a very soft cuddly stuffed spider! See our
toy and replica spiders here!
