October is a month when the world is full of young spiders leaving home. Wisps of silken thread fill the air. Sunlight glints off gossamer parachutes following the whims of the wind. Young spiders break their ties with home by flying away on wings they build themselves.
Most of the 3,000 kinds of spiders in the United States have three things in common: eight eyes, eight legs, and six spinnerets that create the strongest natural fiber known - silk. Spiders might replace silkworms except for one problem. Silkworms eat plants and are easy to raise in captivity. But when you try to raise spiders in confined spaces, they have a strong tendency to eat each other. (Read the rest …)
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