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Most external appendages on the spider are attached to the cephalothorax, including the eyes, chelicerae and other mouthparts, pedipalps and legs. Like other arachnids, spiders are unable to chew their food, so they have a mouth part shaped like a short drinking straw that they use to suck up the liquefied insides of their prey.
This image comes from the following images: File:Spider_internal_anatomy.png licensed with PD-US . 2009-06-27T01:33:45Z Kaldari 5000x2500 (10823835 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=Diagram of the internal anatomy of a two-lunged spider.}} |Source=Scanned from the 1920 edition of ''The Spider Book'', published by Doubleday, Page & Company (originally published in 1912)
In a story told by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Arachne (Ancient Greek for "spider") was a Lydian girl who challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest. [143] [144] Arachne won, but Athena destroyed her tapestry out of jealousy, [144] [145] causing Arachne to hang herself.
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Contour drawing – Chiaroscuro – using strong contrasts between light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body. Gesture Drawing - loose drawing or sketching with the wrists moving, to create a sense of naturalism of the line or shape, as opposed to geometric or mechanical drawing ...
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The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of nonsticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk.