Arachnid Quotes

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow.

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years...

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.

One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.

Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.