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Article: Web browsing: Trevor Blake is not afraid of spiders.
- Article from:
- Habitat Australia
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
- Author:
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A FRESH DEWY MORNING in the bush or the garden will often have us marvelling at a spectacular spider web and reaching for the camera, or letting a friend take the lead on a bushwalk. But some spiders make no web.
There are various groups of spiders that each function differently. The `primitive' spiders live in burrows or holes in the ground. `Modern' (Araneomorphae) spiders live in a variety of ways and can be divided into four groups based on their method of hunting:
* spiders that construct the
* spiders that ambush prey
* net-casting spiders