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It’s enough to give anyone the creeps. You’re walking along, and suddenly you feel a spiderweb stretch across your face!
So you start wiping your face frantically, trying to get the stuff off, while looking all around you for the spider. Is it big, is it wriggling down your shirt, is it crawling up your neck?
Many people are afraid of spiders, but it’s hard to understand why. Most spiders are helpful, eating insects, such as locusts and mosquitoes, that damage crops or spread diseases. Only a handful of the approximately 35,000 spider species can cause death in humans.
All spiders are hunters, and they go where the food is. That means spiders can be found just about everywhere—underwater, on the world’s highest mountain, and, of course, in your bedroom. Yet most are so shy that you’ll probably have a hard time finding one—unless you stumble into its web.
