Hunting The Hunters By Mary Sutherland

These facts is based on an article about Spiders.

• Not all spiders catch their food in webs of silky silk.
• Some hunt for their food, stalking and pouncing on their prey, in much the same way as a cat does.
• Because many hunting spiders are night-shifting  workers, the best time to look them is after dark.
• Six of the spider’s eight eyes work like mirrors.
• They reflect back a little of any light that reaches them.
• Light travels in straight lines, so if you hold you torch at eye level and shine it down into the eyes of a hunting spider.
• If a spider is carrying an egg sac or even a piggy-backing it’s babies, you’ll know that it’s a female spider.