spider webs

Describes how two different spiders spin webs and use them to catch food.

Text and photographs describe how a garden spider spins her web and how she uses it to catch food.

Examines the physical characteristics, life cycle, and natural habitat of various kinds of spiders with emphasis on their ability to extrude silk and weave webs.

Offers a close look at spiders and spider webs, explaining how spiders live and reproduce and how they serve a useful purpose by eating insect pests.

Rhyming text describes how, when, where, and why spiders spin webs. Includes a spider identification guide.

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of spiders and how they use their silk for weaving webs and other purposes.

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

Text and photographs describe how a variety of spiders produce silk and use it for making webs, trapping insects for food, and for other purposes.

Third-grader Todd, suffering from a run of bad luck, brightens up when he learns that the unit on spiders he has been forced into at school--Todd hates spiders--may actually teach him a way to find the thief of his beloved baseball card collection.