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the science of loving the eight-legged thing everyone else is screaming at
means the scientific study of spiders and their relatives (arachnids), including their behavior, anatomy, and classification
from From Greek 'arachnē' (spider) plus '-logia' (study of). The Greek word carries its own myth: Arachne was a mortal weaver so skilled she challenged the goddess Athena to a contest — and for her hubris was turned into a spider, doomed to spin forever. The '-logy' ending is the same workhorse suffix found across the sciences, from biology to geology, all tracing back to Greek 'logos' (word, reason, account).
- name
- From Greek arachne, the weaver Athena turned into a spider
- silk strength
- Spider silk outperforms steel by weight
- count
- Over 50,000 spider species described so far
- not insects
- Spiders have eight legs, no antennae, two body parts
- venom upside
- Spider venom is studied for painkillers and cancer drugs
spider and scorpion museum — located in pastaza, ecuador, houses over 300 spider species including the largest tarantulas in the world
norman platnick spider catalog — american museum of natural history database documenting 50,000+ spider species, updated since 1995