If it's not tell me why.
2007-01-03 12:34:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Eek... a Spider!
A Spider is an Insect? No no no... Spiders belong to the "arachnid" family, not the insect family. Other arachnids are scorpions, ticks, daddy longlegs and mites.
How is an insect different from a spider? One easy way to tell the difference... the insects have six legs... a spider has eight legs. See if you can count all eight legs on this tarantula.
Spiders have glands in their abdomens which produce silk. The silk is pushed through the tubelike spinneret to form webs to catch food and/or cocoons to protect their young.
2007-01-03 12:40:07 · answer #1 · answered by Pey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spider is not an insects. It is an arachnid. Both belong to phylum arthropoda. but differ in class. The spider belongs to class arachnida while insects belong to class insecta. Arachnids may be easily distinguished from insects by the fact that arachnids have eight legs whereas insects have six. Also arachnids characterized by four pairs of segmented legs and a body that is divided into two regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen. Also called arachnoid. Insects possess segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton, a hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The body is divided into a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The head supports a pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, and mouth parts. The thorax has six legs (one pair per segment) and wings (if present in the species). The abdomen (made up of eleven segments some of which may be reduced or fused) has respiratory, excretory and reproductive structures.
2007-01-03 14:35:51 · answer #2 · answered by meekaila 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though spiders and insects are related, as both are arthropods, a spider is an arachnid, not an insect. An insect has 6 legs whereas an arachnid has 8.
2007-01-04 01:44:06 · answer #3 · answered by Mystique6583 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A spider is NOT an insect, for one.
Spiders belong to a class of creatures called "Arachnids" which are, among other differences, have 8 legs instead of 6.
2007-01-03 12:48:29 · answer #4 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because spiders have 8 legs while insects have 6. Also they have two sections: abdomen, head. While the insect has three or in most cases.
2007-01-03 13:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by BlOnDe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One basic difference is an insect has 6 legs and 3 sections to their body and spiders (or arachnids) have 8 legs and 2 sections to their body.
2007-01-03 12:36:01 · answer #6 · answered by purplebuggy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No a spider is An Arachnid All bugs have 6 legs go outdoors seek for bugs.... if its 6 legs ( of direction it might desire to have lost some ) as a organic quantity of legs then its an insect
2016-12-15 15:07:37 · answer #7 · answered by rocca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, a spider is NOT an insect. A spider is an Arachnid.
Insects have six legs.
Arachnids have eight legs.
2007-01-03 12:42:35 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A spider is an arachnid, has 2 body sections (as opposed to 3), and has 8 legs (opposed to 6). They are different in this way.
2007-01-03 12:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by darkflower366 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For starters its not an insect. It's an arachnid because it has 8 legs rather than 6.
2007-01-03 12:35:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋