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Blind spider blind spider, although there is a "spider" in the name, looks a little like a "mutated spider", but this little thing is not a close relative of the spider at all, and even distant relatives are a bit far-fetched.
The blind spider is a general term for all species of the arthropod phylum Arachnid order, about 6 600 species, which and tick mites, spiders, scorpions and other most well-known arachnids.
Later, let's talk about the difference between blind spiders and spiders, let's start with the surface things. Although the blind spider makes people feel "familiar", people still know very little about it. Let's first understand the origin of the name of the blind spider.
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The name "blind spider" can make people mistakenly think that this spider-like animal does not have eyes.
No, the origin of many animal names does seem a bit sloppy, but blind spiders are not blind, in fact, except for the species that have long lived in dark caves, most blind spiders have two one eyes.
This is because the second team of blind spiders has the longest foot and has a large number of sensory organs. When a blind spider walks, the second pair of footlets does not participate in the walk, but reaches to the front of the body to perceive the surrounding environment, like the tentacles of an insect.
When people observe the special biological characteristics of blind spiders, they naturally think of blind people walking on the road, who either extend their arms or hold blind canes and grope forward.
Hence the name "Blind Spider".
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The most distinctive feature of the blind spider is the leg length. Except for a few "indisputable" guys, the blind spiders' eight long legs are particularly eye-catching features. This also gave them the nickname Daddy longlegs.
These eight legs are not only long, but also particularly thin, and the small body is propped up on it as if floating in the air. In 2012, scientists found a cave blind spider in Laos, which has a leg as long as 15 cm and a body length of less than 1 cm.
Here is an interesting point of knowledge, when the blind spider is touched by the enemy, it will actively cut off and give up the foot, and the fallen foot will twitch to attract the other party, and the blind spider will take the opportunity to escape, which is the same as the gecko's strategy of surviving with a broken tail, which scientists call this behavior self-cutting.
During the busy farming season, people come and go, and people sometimes accidentally touch blind spiders, and their steps will fall, not necessarily encountering natural enemies.
Fortunately, and will affect its quality of life, i.e. the fewer legs, the lower the quality of life
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Blind spiders are more common spider-like animals when people play in the wild, they either lie on the walls or corners of cottages in groups, or appear in groups on earth walls, bridges and tree trunks in the jungle near water sources.
These swarm-dwelling creatures seem to be "meeting", in fact,
Most blind spiders are omnivorous, and the diet includes small invertebrates such as jumpers, termites, fruit flies, etc., as well as carrion, plants, and fungi. However, there are also a small number of blind spiders with a specific feeding habit, such as the German "snail blind spider" that specializes in preying on terrestrial snails and slugs.
Regarding the mating and reproduction of blind spiders, some species can reproduce in parthenogenesis, which is easily confused with ghost spiders.
In some species of blind spiders, male blind spiders that come to court mate are sneaky, they disguise themselves as female blind spiders, sneak close to it, and then implant their sperm into the female without the female blind spider's knowledge.
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All blind spiders belong to the order Blind Arachnidae. Blind spiders are different from spiders in terms of the number of eyes, body size, structure of sexual organs, and defense mechanisms.
The head, thorax, and abdomen of the blind spider heal into a thoracic cavity, and the spider has a distinctly constricted waist between the cephalothorax and abdomen.
Blind spiders have only 2 eyes, while spiders usually have 8 eyes.
Unlike spiders, blind spiders do not produce silk, which is the biggest difference between the two, so they do not form webs, let alone use silk nets to catch prey.
It may be dying on that web, trying to escape the spider that is about to eat it, fighting for the last glimmer of hope for survival.
Also, blind spiders are not poisonous animals. They have no sharp teeth and no venom glands. With the exception of a few species, most spiders do not produce venom.
If you see a bunch of hair-like things in the wild, don't be curious to touch them, it's a bunch of blind spiders. Although they are generally non-toxic, they are also bad enough to be climbed on.
Well, the blind spider about this is not a spider introduced, if you are interested in other small creatures, send a message in the background to tell the cubs to scream ~ ~