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Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends
(Children 9-12 independent reading; 5-8 read to)
The book is a compilation of Native American spider tales retold by Jill Max. The content is folklore-with non-fiction accounts of specific groups of Native Americans:
This anthology of fourteen legends provides an important historical literary heritage of the American tribes of long ago. The compilation is sixty-five pages with eighteen pages dedicated illustrations. All of the stories are informational and entertaining. Each of the legends is prefaced by a realistic description of the tribe telling the tale. It describes where the people lived, clothing worn, homes built, crops and/or animals used for food, spirtitual beliefs, and other important attributes to each tribes’ being and survival. Every legend in this treasury has “spider” as its integral main or lesser important characters. “Spider” is sometimes portrayed as the creator of Earth’s vegetation, as a trickster, a giver of tribal wisdom concerning survival, mentor, or as an earthly being with magical powers. The illustrations depict real and sometimes fantasy/surreal forms. They are delightful and the stories are enjoyable to read. |
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By Springer, the Jumping Spider
 Limey the Lynx Spider is quite attractive in her lime green colorations with red near her eyes. She is easier to spot when walking among the dirt, but she’s pretty smart because she spends most of her time among the tall grasses, plants, and low shrubs. There are times when she’ll wander near the rocks and water. Her thoughts are you go where your dinner it.
She has eight amazing eyes—six shaped in a hexagon pattern on her head with two up front. Because of the positioning of her eyes, she should be able to see things above her head. She has a sleek long body, fourteen to sixteen millimeters in length (head and abdomen) and eight long legs that are almost twice her body length. Her legs are spotted all over in black dots and tipped with three claws. Stiff black spines stick out like spikes from her legs.
Limey lives throughout the southern areas of the United States—Virginia to California. It is difficult to believe that lynx spiders do not spin any kind of web or silk snare. They don’t even make themselves a comfy retreat to rest. These are running and jumping hunters who go after their pray. Limey will lay eggs in an egg sac and attach it to one of the plants in her neighborhood. Many of Limey’s lynx family members are quite tropical.
There she goes lickety split. I think she caught sight of a bee.
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Question of the Month:
My friend told me that spider silk is stronger than steel. Is he nuts?
Answer: No, your friend is not nuts. Spiders pull silk from their spinnerets to make snares (webs, long stick globs, etc.), comfy retreats, and egg sacs. All spiders make a silk egg sac but not all spiders make a snare or retreat. The silk can be sticky (stretchy) or dry. The dry silk is the strongest, in fact, it is stronger than the exact size and thickness of a steel thread. Spider silk is remarkable and hard to duplicate by people until, in the year 2000, scientists “transferred the DNA for spider silk into the genetic code of goats, this enabled the female goats to produce spider silk protein in their milk. Goats can produce 10 grams of spider silk protein every day—thousands of times more than the largest spider!” pages 10-11 excerpt taken from Dr. Bryson Gore’s book: Wow Science Biology: Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel published by Aladdin/Watts, in Sydney, Australia. |
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