Why Don't Spiders Get Stuck In Their Webs?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.3 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Why don't spiders stick to their own webs? How do spiders walk up walls and on ceilings without falling? Why do spiders have eight legs and eight eyes? How do they make webs? And silk? What's a cobweb? How do spiders eat? And why are daddy long legs called daddy long legs when they have to have a female to produce babies?! We're talking spiders today with arachnologist Catherine Scott.
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids produced at Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm Jane Lindholm and I love learning about all of the topics we cover on this show. |
| 0:32.9 | You send us the questions and we find the answers and then we all get to learn something |
| 0:37.4 | in the process. |
| 0:39.1 | Today we're covering something that almost everyone has some experience with. |
| 0:44.0 | Spiders. |
| 0:45.0 | But a lot of people have the wrong idea about spiders. |
| 0:48.2 | They think they're creepy or scary or out to bite you just out of spite. |
| 0:53.3 | Not you, you curious but why listeners. |
| 0:56.9 | You've sent us lots of questions about spiders that make it clear you are eager to learn |
| 1:01.7 | more about these remarkable creatures. |
| 1:05.0 | Here to help answer your spider questions is Catherine Scott. |
| 1:09.1 | She's an arachnologist. |
| 1:11.1 | What is an arachnologist? |
| 1:12.9 | Why it's someone who studies arachnids of course? |
| 1:16.3 | But what's an arachnid? |
| 1:18.7 | An arachnid is an animal that has eight legs and that's the main defining feature. |
| 1:29.0 | Spiders are arachnids. |
| 1:30.8 | All spiders are arachnids but not all arachnids are spiders. |
| 1:35.1 | There are several other kinds of animals that also have eight legs that are closely related |
| 1:39.3 | to spiders but aren't spiders. |
| 1:41.8 | There are other arachnids like scorpions, like mites and ticks and there's a bunch of |
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