Scientists have named 30,000 species of spiders, but believe this is only about one-fourth of all the different spiders in the world. Click on the icons below to learn where spiders live, what they eat, how they hunt and how they reproduce. You can even pet a spiders in Zoobooks Virtual Zoo!

If you take the time to watch spiders, you may be surprised by what you see. There are many wonderful colors, shapes, and sizes of spiders. Some spin beautiful webs in a variety of styles such as orbs, funnels, triangles, or even messy cobwebs. Web-building spiders perform daring acrobatic feats on their thin, silk threads. Other spiders spin no webs at all. They stalk insects on the ground with all the skill and ferocity of a tiger hunting big game. Scientists have named 30,000 species of spiders, but believe this is only about one-fourth of all the different spiders in the world.