Sentences with phrase «large arachnid»

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In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

The microscopic arachnids — which leave behind feces and corpses that can trigger allergic responses and asthma — are sparse across large swaths of the Great Plains and Mountain West, according to a new survey of the arthropods that inhabit our homes.

If a large swatch of land washes into the sea, laden with arachnids, the spiders may be able to hide out in their nests throughout the journey.

They are arachnids, like spiders, and most stages have eight legs, a tiny head, and a large round body that often expands when it fills with its host's blood.1

Bourgeois fashioned a few of these large - scale arachnids as a tribute to her mother, who she viewed as equally patient and graceful.