What are the characteristics of spiders' living habits?

Spiders are the most common small animals in our daily lives. With their tiny bodies, they often make their homes under eaves and in storage rooms, spinning a large white web, then quietly hiding to one side and waiting patiently for prey to come to them. They are both beneficial and harmful to humans, but in terms of their contribution, they are mainly beneficial insects. Let's take a look at spiders' living habits below!

Normally when people see a spider, they swing a broom and swat it dead. No one shows mercy and spares its life, let alone quietly observes a spider's living habits. In fact, spiders are both harmful and beneficial to humans. In farmland, most of what spiders prey on is crop pests. In medicine, spiders can also be used as medicine to treat human diseases.

There are many kinds of spiders, and they are widely distributed with strong adaptability. They can live or spin webs on the soil surface, in the soil, on trees, among grass, under stones, in caves, by the water, in low-lying land, in shrubs, in moss, inside and outside houses, or inhabit freshwater and coastal lake zones. In short, spiders can be found in water, on land and in the air.

Spiders mostly feed on insects, other spiders and myriapods, and some spiders also feed on small animals. They can creep within 30 cm to capture prey and pounce on it. Most spiders use the least silk to weave the largest possible web. The web is like an aerial filter, trapping insects that do not see the fine silk and are not strong fliers, finally giving the spider a full meal.

Before a female spider lays eggs, she first uses silk to make a "birthing mat." She lays the eggs on it, then covers them with silk. She also weaves the egg sac into a fixed form. A female spider generally produces only one egg sac, though some produce multiple egg sacs. The young spiders hatched from the egg shells still remain in the egg sac, and only leave the egg sac after undergoing 1 molt inside it. Before spiders reach maturity, they must undergo multiple molts as they grow, and the number of molts and the intervals between them vary greatly. Generally speaking, small spiders molt 4-5 times in their lifetime, medium-sized spiders about 7-8 times, and large spiders about 11-13 times.