What living things have eight legs?

Spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, whip scorpions, and pseudoscorpions are all arachnids that can be found in Everglades National Park. Unlike insects, arachnids have eight legs and no antennae, and their body is divided into two main segments: a cephalothorax and abdomen.

1. Do spiders have 8 legs?
2. What sea creature has 8 legs?
3. Do spiders have 8 legs or 6?
4. Do any insects have 8 legs?
5. Do Scorpions have 8 legs?
6. Can starfish have 8 legs?
7. Is there a sea spider?
8. Do Tarantulas have 8 or 10 legs?
9. How do spiders have 8 legs?
10. Do spiders poop?
11. What Beetle has 8 legs?
12. What is something with 8 legs called?
13. What is an insect with 8 legs?
14. Do any animals have 10 legs?
15. How many legs do ants have?
16. Is there a spider with 6 legs?

Do spiders have 8 legs?

How many legs does a spider have? They have 10 legs! This is no joke; spiders have 8 legs that they walk with, however, they also have a pair that they use sort of like hands. These front pair of legs are referred to pedipalps or just palps for short.

What sea creature has 8 legs?

With eight legs and three hearts, an octopus is a fascinating creature.

Do spiders have 8 legs or 6?

Spiders are arachnids. They differ from insects in having only two parts to the body, eight legs not six, six or eight eyes (two in insects) and spinnerets on their abdomens that produce silk.

Do any insects have 8 legs?

Here's whether insects with 8 legs exist: There are no insects with 8 legs. By definition, insects have six legs. There are insect-like creatures with 4 pairs of legs and therefore 8 legs in total.

Do Scorpions have 8 legs?

How many legs does a scorpion have? ... But scorpions - members of the arachnida class along with spiders - actually have eight legs, as well as their distinctive pincers.

Can starfish have 8 legs?

You superstar! Fisherman hauls in starfish with eight legs instead of five. He has an astonishing eight limbs instead of the usual five. ... The starfish does have a remarkable ability to regenerate lost arms, sometimes growing two where there was one, meaning that sixarmed creatures are not unheard of.

Is there a sea spider?

Strange creatures with eight spindly legs that crawl along the ocean floor, sea spiders may look like arachnids, but they're actually not. There are about 1,000 sea spider species worldwide, ranging from an inch long to as big as a dinner plate.

Do Tarantulas have 8 or 10 legs?

Tarantulas have four pairs of legs, or eight legs total. In addition, they have four other appendages near the mouth called chelicerae and pedipalps. The chelicerae contain fangs and venom, while the pedipalps are used as feelers and claws; both aid in feeding.

How do spiders have 8 legs?

Spider legs are modified appendages from an ancestor that had many more pairs of legs, but most of the legs of spiders got modified into other things. There probably isn't any particular reason why spiders evolved to have eight, insects six, horseshoe crabs ten, or any other number for the jointed-legged animals.

Do spiders poop?

Spiders excrete thick, liquid droppings from their anal opening which land on the surface below. Spider droppings are a combination of digested food (insects) and waste products. The droppings look like pin head-size splats or drips in shades of white, gray, brown, or black.

What Beetle has 8 legs?

A pseudoscorpion has eight legs with five to seven segments each; the number of fused segments is used to distinguish families and genera.

What is something with 8 legs called?

Arachnids are spiders , harvestmen , mites and ticks , and their relatives like scorpions that don't live in Michigan. All arachnids have eight legs, and unlike insects, they don't have antennae. ... Arachnids are part of a larger group called arthropods , which also includes insects, myriapods, and crustaceans.

What is an insect with 8 legs?

Arachnids include spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks. There are about 60,000 species of arachnids. Arachnids have eight legs, not six like insects. They also have an extra pair of either pincers or fangs.

Do any animals have 10 legs?

Ten-legged animals belong exclusively to the arthropod group, which contains crustaceans and insects. You'll find most -- but not all -- 10-legged animals living in the sea. Crabs, lobsters and crayfish, shrimp, and in the desert, their is the scorpion. They all have 10 legs.

How many legs do ants have?

The ant's six legs are attached to the thorax. The abdomen contains the ant's vital organs and reproductive parts. This is also called the gaster. Ants in the formicinae subfamily have an acidopore to emit formic acid when threatened.

Is there a spider with 6 legs?

All spiders come with eight legs. However, that is not say to say that there are no spiders with six legs. ... Other spiders lose their legs in territorial fights or after mating with a cannibalistic female. So a spider with fewer than eight legs is a surprisingly common occurrence.