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Instead they have two chelicerae each with two segments the fang and the basal portion. So I colloquially call them teeth with fangs being a subset of teeth.
Spiders have two body segments.
Do spiders have teeth. All spiders have two fangs and most of them have venom glands ejecting venom through them. Some use them to chew up their prey so it liquefies better. So I colloquially call them teeth with fangs being a subset of teeth.
Of course evolutionarily spider fangs and human teeth are unrelated. Spiders do not have teeth and all spiders except for a few Uloborid weirdos are venomous. I know thats two things but seriously paparazzi really.
A few years ago some small containers were found with three baby spiders in one was. Remember spiders dont have true teeth instead the have fangs which inject venom. Venom is made in their salivary glands and is delivered through their hollow pointy bits on the ends.
Most spider venom is specifically made to be toxic to arthropods insects and other spiders which makes sense because thats the majority of their prey. Like insects spiders have an open circulatory system. The heart which is a tube with small holes in it pumps blood hemolymph through arteries that empty directly into the body cavity where it surrounds all the organs and tissues to provide nutrients to them.
Spiders have no veins. Spiders have two body segments. The front segment is called the Cephalothorax.
The spiders eyes mouth fangs stomach brain and the glands that make the poison are on this part of the body. The legs are connected to this part as well. Spiders are arachnids a class of arthropods that also includes scorpions mites and ticks.
There are more than 45000 known species of spiders found in habitats all over the world. Spiders cannot chew their prey because they do not have teeth. Instead they inject stomach juices into their paralyzed prey with dissolves them and then suck the liquid out.
Why do spiders drink. Spiders do not have teeth. Instead they have two chelicerae each with two segments the fang and the basal portion.
Daddy long legs are not actually spiders at all making this myth completely false. Daddy long legs are also called harvestmen and belong to a group called opiliones. They have crab-like mouthparts do not have fangs like spiders.
Spiders have been known to. These two plates form the roof and floor respectively of the tube-shaped mouth which opens just behind the jaws. A pair of plate-like maxillae flank the labium - each has a food cutting row or patch of teeth on the front end.
The pedipalps - that help with food handling touch and taste sensing and in male spiders are modified as mating organs. Ladybugs feed on soft bodied insects because they dont have teeth which would make them very frightening. However like other beetles they do have mandibles or chewing mouth parts.
Below is a diagram of what their mouth parts look like.